DX pixel drawing

[VOX]

With C# and Direct X is there a way to simply plot a pixel onto the screen? Or do you always have to draw polygons?

[MrWizard]

It really depends on what you're going for. You can lock the back buffer and manipulate the pixels that way, but it won't be fast. What exactly do you want to do?

[VOX]

Well I can draw a triangle or square onto the screen, but I don't know how to simply draw a pixel at "x,y". Or mkae the triangles wireframe they always have a color.

[MrWizard]

You can make the rendering wireframe by setting a render state:

pDevice->SetRenderState(D3DRS_FILLMODE, D3DFILL_WIREFRAME);

Otherwise you can lock the back buffer like i was saying and manually manipulate the bits. You have to create the device with the lockable back buffer flag and then use the IDirect3DDevice9::GetBackBuffer method. You can look into the docs for specific params and such.