title: getting error for ambiguous symbol and need help to remove it
body: <p>i am getting this error which i unable to remove in visual studio 2010. i am using one third party library which uses its own definition for "string" Also visual studio's xstring file is there in the folder where it gets installed. now when i am trying to compile code i am getting following error</p>
  
  <p>1>...\xyz.cpp(24): error C2872: 'string' : ambiguous symbol
  1>          could be 'third party library path\string.h(31)
  1>          or       'c:\program files (x86)\microsoft visual studio 10.0\vc\include\xstring(2063) : std::string'</p>
  
  <p>compiler is not able to understand which string definition it should use. How can i remove this error in visual studi 2010. I want the code to use third party string definition.</p>
  
  <p>i tried to set third party path in include directory but still i am seeing this error.
  Please help me. Thanks in advance</p>