The first of my Managed DirectX tutorials was completed today, it covers setting up the DirectX device object for rendering. You can read it here or just take a look at the articles under the "Managed DirectX Tutorials" category.
The hardest part in developing the tutorials was trying to figure out what to say about each section of code. Hopefully I did ok, but at times I felt like I was just repeating what the comments in the code said. If you check it out, let me know what you think so I can tweak things and improve the presentation. I welcome any and all input and comments.
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Happy 4th of July everyone! Let's not forget what this day is about.