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Thanks, I'm going to try this approach too. In the meantime, I found out that a DirectDraw.Surface can be created directly out of a Bitmap: SurfaceDescription desc = new SurfaceDescription(); desc.SurfaceCaps.OffScreenPlain = true; desc.Width = width; desc.Height = height; Surface surf = new Surface(bitmap, desc, localDevice); It's then easy to use Surface.Draw to blit the surface into another. Your method would let me reuse the same surface always though, so it seems better. Regards -- Ralf

Here's how you overload the conversion from int to your class: public static implicit operator MyId(int id) { return new MyId(id); }

Why don't you use something like void foo2( [out] short *value);

Thanks, exactly what I needed! I love MSDN, there's a lot of material there, yet I fear it because there's too much interesting stuff to read :-)

Use CreateHandle() instead of Show(), but is still feels like a hack to me too. -- -Blake (com/bcdev/blake)