Hi, I apologize in advance since I know this topic has already come up, but I did not find a solution in the previous threads. I recently started game programming and have purchased several books one of which is "Beginning Game Programming" I have been working my way through the projects and I am currently receiving errors related to two lines of code. sprite_handler->Begin(D3DXSPRITE_ALPHABLEND); and sprite_handler->Draw(kitty_image[kitty.curframe], NULL,NULL,&position, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(255,255,255)); The first returns the error saying that D3DXSPRITE_ALPHABLEND is an undeclared identifier, and the second says that Draw does not take five arguments (actually its more like 7 when I looked at the function definition) I attempted to compile the source code that came with the book and I still receive these two errors. I installed DirectX9.0c and that did not change anything either. d3d9.lib and d3d9x.lib have both been included in my project settings. I have tried to compile both with Visual Studio.net and DevC++. If someone has a solution it would greatly be appreciated. Thanks, Ermac

Okay thank you,

I installed the SDK that came with the book which looks like just 9.0. What is the most recent SDK and where might I find that?

Or is it possible that I messed up on an installation or something. The book did not cover this but I sort of jerry-rigged it on my own, I copied the .libs and .h files into the lib and include folders respectively for Visual Studio .NET\Platform SDK etc when compiling wasn't recognizing the .h files. Was this the proper way to do this or was there something that I missed?

Rock On,
Thank you for the help. Once I got the new SDK and compiled it worked. I think I missed the option to directly install for VS.net on the previous version of the SDK anyway.

Thanks,
Ermac