Wide strings Visual Studio 2005 vs 2017?

Question

I am trying to hook a function of an old game coded in Visual Studio 2005.

The function uses std::wstring, for some reason the function doesn't read it at all since I am using vs 2017.

I would like to know the difference between both wide strings in Visual Studio 2005 and 2017. And how to use Visual Studio 2005 wide string in Visual Studio 2017?

Note: the hook code is working fine in vs 2005.

Thanks in advance, Best regards.

Update #1: A friend sent me the wide string class from his vs 2005 but still it's missing const wchar_t* constructor

namespace std {
class wstring {
    void *allocator;
    union  {
        wchar_t buffer[8];
        wchar_t* p_buffer
    } _myData;

    int size;
    int reserved_size;
};
}

Answer 1

After some researchers and a help from some friends. I have achieved what I want which is building the old wstring class of vs 2005 with a constructor for const wchar_t* and use it.

class wstring05 {
    public:
        wstring05(const wchar_t* cstr)
        {
            allocator = nullptr;
            reserved_size = size = wcslen(cstr);
            if (size < 8)
                memcpy(buffer, cstr, (size + 1) * sizeof(wchar_t));
            else
                p_buffer = cstr;
        }

    private:

        void *allocator;
        union {
            wchar_t buffer[8];
            const wchar_t* p_buffer;
        };

        int size;
        int reserved_size;
    };