Ok heres my deal:

I have been trying to get DirectX to work with visual studio 2005 (VC++), and for some odd reason it just wont work.
I have Visual Studio 6 installed and I'm wondering if the DXSDK is integrating with that instead of 2005.

I have tried unisntalling, reinstalling, installing in different combos.
I have even tried codeblocks and dev C++ and, either my version of DX is foobared or I am doing something completely idiotic.
Is there an option in the DXSDK that I am missing?

Does anyone have a dummy proof way of making the DXSDK to work with VS2005? (I would like to use codeblocks and dev C++, also).