Hey I'm back after a long time of exile from the game developing community largely because of my inexperience, but anyways I have a question. I am reading a book called Visual Basic Game Programming For Teens the author is using Visual Basic 6 and I have 2008 but I heard you could use 08 for it. Gosh I get off tracks so easily. Okay I'm going to focus. It says I need DirectX 8 and to add it as a reference. I downloaded it (I think) but when I click add reference DirectX 8 is not there. Can anyone tell me why and how to fix the problem?

DirectX 8 is pretty old and deprecated for some time. The DirectX 8 add on for Visual Basic 6 was a very special solution and doesn’t work for newer versions anymore.
You should have a look at the new Game Studio. It is sing C# instead of Visual Basic but it should be so hard to understand.

Does the new game studio work for Visual Basic? Because I'm new to game programming and want to follow along with the book. Unfortunately I made a mistake and didn't buy the second edition which is a little closer to this years technology.

Oh never mind I just looked it up and it's a drag and drop engine is it not? I just need a graphics program like Direct X that works with VB. Oh and it has to be free also.

Okay I got my answer from GameDev forums he said to use SlimDX, and right now it's working.