OK, here's what I was doing. I was having a look at all the components and references on my computer. I got to DirectX and I thought I will save that til last because it looks too hard. So I went on and on. When I got back to DirectX I discovered that it was in fact really hard because you have to do all these "Set objDX = DirectX7.Something". I went to MSDN online and they did have some tutorials about DirectX, but I think they were only sample tutorials, they weren't very in depth and I found myself having to declare objects not in the tutorial, and even after that they didn't work.

Can someone please tell me how to start up DirectX, prepare the Viewport and maybe how to draw a cube. Anything to get me started.

Thanks.