Hi Kris,

  Since I don't have C++11, I don't have auto but I tried this and it works.
I guess I was hoping for a more (meta-)magical solution that allows bind to automatically create a move-copy or something...

Thanks!
Adi

 
auto p = make_shared<string>(); 
p->swap( veryLongString ); 
And now you have a shared pointer with moved contents of veryLongString ;-) 
Regards, 
Kris