MBCS Error building MFC C++ project with Visual Studio

Question

I opened my existing MFC project using Visual Studio and when I build I get the following error message:

Error 1 error MSB8031: Use of MBCS encoding in MFC p         


        

Answer 1

Instead of installing an add-on, you may consider changing the character set from MBCS to Unicode.

This is done in the project properties as is depicted below.