"Tim H" <tim.harpur@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:003f01c34e25$e7a56ac0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I am looking for some good documentation on using DirectX
> with VB.net. I have been programming in VB 6 for about 3
> years now, and for the past year I have been developing a
> game designer's toolkit for VB 6/DirectX 7+. The toolkit is
> completed for the VB 6 platform, but before I was going to
> release it I wanted to offer a ported version for VB.net -
> I have run into a few snags however, as the upgrade wizard
> noted over 1000 upgrade problems - my toolkit wraps most of
> the DirectX API function calls and classes, and the way
> this is handled in VB 6 is apparently drastically different
> than for VB.net. The documentation I was referencing for VB
> 6 and DirectX was the DirectX SDK help file - Is there such
> a help file for VB.net and DirectX???
>
> Also, how do you pass the base address for an array to a
> Windows or DirectX function. With VB 6 you just had to pass
> the address of the first element ie., myArray(0) - with
> VB.net using objects for arrays this method no longer works.