Resolved. Read here for more details: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Vsexpressvb/thread/5a961d14-3334-41e4-8e4e-3c8b5c685006

The video card is a Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT

I can create a new VB project, add the DirectX and Direct3D references, and put this code in the main form:   Imports Microsoft.DirectX  Imports Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D    ...

I'm trying to run a VB2008 application that uses DirectX under Windows 7 RC (64 bit). This is an application I wrote on a Vista machine. When I run the compiled application in Windows 7, I get the error message: myappname has stopped working From within VB2008 Express Edition, I am able to build the solution, but I cannot debug ...

Resolved. The solution is to create the triangle strip as a PositionColored instead of TransformedColored.Dim triangleStrip(5) As CustomVertex.PositionColored

I'm new to DirectX, but have figured out how to make it do mostly what I want (I'm coding in VB.Net). However, I have a TriangleStrip that always displays in red, even if I specifiy different colors for the vertices. I don't see any code that specifies using red, so I 'm curious how I can get it to use the color specified in the vertex. Any ...