I paid someone on Elance.com to write me a simple DirectX program to help me get started. I installed the DirectX 11 SDK (Feb 2010) and VStudio 2008 (on Win 7). When I run the .exe that my programmer provided me, it just puts up a message ...

My app relies on a direct3d window which spends most of its time hidden in the background. If I leave it in the background long enough (say, 3 minutes) dwm seems to decide it's not important anymore. Because when I show the window, I noti ...

I'm looking for a simple DirectX example to get me started. Of the two I've already downloaded the first had compile errors that I don't understand and the second could not convert from VS 2005 to VS 2008 Express. BTW: I'm not looking t ...

[code]using Microsoft.DirectX.AudioVideoPlayback; private Video _video = null; // open a new video _video = new Video(openFileDialog1.FileName); _video.Play();[/code] I can play video with the above code, but I want the vid ...