I was searching how to make Direct Draw running in windowed mode quite long, so finally when it is complete, I think that it can be useful to show it. It is prepared code, ready to run, when you have installed newest version of .NET, DX, If you have older, you should probably change it's references on your libraries (in Properties of project :). I'm not sure about back compatibility.

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Last problem that stays still, and made me to stop developing in dd windowed mode is repainting form under render area: it causes blinking of output, and I couldn't get rid of it, tried override onpaint, onivalidate, tried validate from user32.dll...tried to set other mode of dd... no success. If you have DirectX SDK, there is only windowed example of not cyclic rendering (understand static image, no animation), so SDK doesn't solve this problem.

If you find this resource usefull, have luck, if you find out how to get rid of this last problem with invalidating of form, let me please know, there is an adress of main inside. This demo is the best I screw from resources all over net, and It's minimally week of searching, learning, asking.

Created on DX9, .NET 2, VB Express 2005