Are you linking to ddraw.lib (and possibly others, depending on which subs of DX you use)?

/Alex

All I want to do is initialize DX with MFC. I'm getting link errors but I don't know why. I tried using DirectDrawCreate() and CoCreateInstance() but neiter work for me. What is the problem? I have a very small zip of my project to look at. Please HELP
www.aracnet.com/~thomaslp/DXProject.zip

yeah, there is a option called "Settings" under one of the menu tabs... click on that, then click on a Link tab, look for the line with all the Libs.. add ddraw.lib, dxguid.lib, or whatever library you're using... and don't use MFC, use Win32 Application (not the console one)
it would create an empty project for you... but it should compile... when you want to show something, then you move on to the other functions.. WindowProc, WinMain (advanced), ShowWindow, CreateWindowEx, SetDisplayMode, SetCooperativeLevel, etc etc