Setting backcolor of surface, also some other questi0ns

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I have a sprite that plays when my form runs, in windowed mode, I do not want the form to be resizable but how would I make the picture box dimensions the same as the sprite (Lets say I dunno the sprites deminesions, I want the user to select one)

How would I set a surface to be a solid color, instead of loading a 1 colored bitmap on to it?

What exactly do "DDSD_CAPS Or DDSD_HEIGHT Or DDSD_WIDTH" do?

How would I show the FPS on the users screen? using dx.DrawText()