string myName;
getline( cin , myName );
wstring printerName( L(myName) );  // error C3861: 'L': identifier not found
wchar_t* WprinterName = printerName.c_str(); // error C2440: 'initializing' : cannot convert from 'const wchar_t *' to 'wchar_t *'

inline std::wstring convert( const std::string& as )
{
            // deal with trivial case of empty string
    if( as.empty() )    return std::wstring();

            // determine required length of new string
    size_t reqLength = ::MultiByteToWideChar( CP_UTF8, 0, as.c_str(), (int)as.length(), 0, 0 );

            // construct new string of required length
    std::wstring ret( reqLength, L'' );

            // convert old string to new string
    ::MultiByteToWideChar( CP_UTF8, 0, as.c_str(), (int)as.length(), &ret[0], (int)ret.length() );

            // return new string ( compiler should optimize this away )
    return ret;
}

inline std::wstring convert( const std::string& as )
{
    wchar_t* buf = new wchar_t[as.size() * 2 + 2];
    swprintf( buf, L"%S", as.c_str() );
    std::wstring rval = buf;
    delete[] buf;
    return rval;
}

std::string str = "Hello";
std::wstring str2(str.length(), L' '); // Make room for characters

// Copy string to wstring.
std::copy(str.begin(), str.end(), str2.begin());

wstring printerName;
printerName.assign( myName.begin(), myName.end() );

#include <atlbase.h>

std::wstring wideString(L"My wide string");
std::string narrowString("My not-so-wide string");

ATL::CW2A narrow(wideString.c_str()); // narrow is a narrow string
ATL::CA2W wide(asciiString.c_str()); // wide is a wide string

errno_t wcstombs_s(
   size_t *pReturnValue,
   char *mbstr,
   size_t sizeInBytes,
   const wchar_t *wcstr,
   size_t count
);

errno_t mbstowcs_s(
   size_t *pReturnValue,
   wchar_t *wcstr,
   size_t sizeInWords,
   const char *mbstr,
   size_t count

//I think this code is simple enough

 #include <string>
 using std::wstring;
 using std::string;

 wstring Convert_String_To_WideString(string & stringtoconvert)
 {
    wstring s = L"";             // wstring to return
    wchar_t b = '0';             // to append new wstring
    int size = stringtoconvert.size();

     // convert here
    for(int i = 0; i < size ; i++)
    {
        b = stringtoconvert[i];
        s.append(1,b);
    }

    return s;      // return wide string
 }