First of all, please accept my thanks for buying my VB book!  Now, please accept my apologies for the code not yet being available on the Apress web site.

If you have stayed current with the DirectX releases, you'll remember that we released a new SDK a few weeks ago, almost co-incident with the release of my VB book.  In a nutshell, that SDK release unleashed the dogs of hell on my code.  In particular, there's a nasty known bug in the current release that prevents VB code from compiling with certain kinds of calls to DrawText

Guess whose code used those specific calls in MANY places?  The good news is, given the fast turnaround pace that the DirectX SDK team has, the bug will be fixed before the end of this year in another SDK release.  In the meantime, you'll have to bear with looking at a 38-line-of-code C# DLL that circumvents the bug.

It's taken me several days plus a few panic emails to Tom Miller to get everything straightened out, but I think I have all the carnage corrected now.  I'm going to update the code to the C# version of the book, plus update the errata, and everything will be ready, most likely by Monday.  This has chewed up several evenings and weekends for me, but it's definitely been a labor of love (and, yes, of obligation to my readers )

Now, everybody wish me luck -- I'm going to go play in my very first poker tournament tonight (it's a charity thing, so I won't feel bad if I get trashed).  I've recently discovered a fascination for playing Texas Hold 'Em... hopefully this won't be the start of a long road to financial ruin