This section pertains only to application development in Visual Basic. See DirectDraw C/C++ Tutorials.

The Tutorial 5 sample application illustrates using the enumeration objects in DirectX for Visual Basic to obtain DirectDraw device information. This application reports the hardware and software capabilities, 3-D hardware and software capabilities, and the available display modes for each DirectDraw device installed on the system.

This tutorial is divided into the following steps:

• Step 1: Obtain Installed DirectDraw Devices
• Step 2: Display DirectDraw Device Capabilities
• Step 3: Display DirectDraw Device 3-D Capabilities
• Step 4: Report Available Display Modes