Tutorial 11: 2D Rendering Being able to render 2D images to the screen is very useful. For example most user interfaces, sprite systems, and text engines are made up of 2D images. As This tutorial is dedicated for 2D games and graphics application. So we have started with DirectDraw, Which we have mentioned early that it is use for 2D programming. In this Section you will learn some basic things about Direct Draw, How to initialize Direct Draw, How to display full screen. Good Direct2D tutorial out there? AceDawg45. So, after the past week or so I have been searching for a good 2D game programming book / tutorial in Direct2D. Why D2D, you ask, and not SFML, or SDL? Well, I am going to want to learn Direct3D soon, and it will be easier if I already know quite a I've got a long list of tutorials to add to this site, but I need to know what to do first. I'm looking at building tutorial sections for Windows Phone, model rendering, text rendering, Windows 8 style input, Windows 8 style multiplayer, and XAudio. A simple DirectDraw sample Putting it all together Now that we have all these initialization routines, we need to actually call them, so the question is, where to call them? Direct3D Tutorial Win32 Sample This is the DirectX SDK's Direct3D 11 tutorial series updated to use Visual Studio 2012 and the Windows SDK 8.0 without any dependencies on legacy DirectX SDK content. I would stay away from directdraw for 2d. In regards to which assembly or system to use this will depend on what you are planning to do with it. At the moment there are 2 main streams of managed directx in the sdk, The first is the 1.1 version, and the second is the 2.0 version. VC++ Tutorial: Using DirectX, DirectDraw in MFC, Article, Example Codes So this article is a simple tutorial for people who just started programming in DirectDraw. I used DirectDraw in C and C++ years back to draw some simple 2D graphics. I was used to the steps of creating a surface, writing to it using po