If you are just talking about putting a hard-coded value in there, it's easy.

wchar_t* wstr_name = L"Hello";

However I assume you want to move a CString variable's value into a wide string. One way to do this is to use the Unicode conversion macros that come with MFC and ATL. For example:

USES_CONVERSION;
CString str(_T("Hello"))
wchar_t* wstr_name = T2W(str.GetBuffer());
str.Release();

Joe O'