Loading a Texture

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With Microsoft DirectX 9.0 for Managed Code, it is relatively simple to load a texture. The following C# code example does just that. To load a texture using DirectX 9.0 for Managed Code, it is first necessary to create a valid Device and a Texture object.

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using Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D;
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// Global variables for this project.
Device device = null; // Rendering device.
Texture texture = null;

// Initialize the device.
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// Device reset method.
public void OnResetDevice(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Device dev = (Device)sender;
    
    // Now create the texture.
    texture = TextureLoader.FromFile(dev, Application.StartupPath + 
                                              @"\..\..\banana.bmp");
}