Surfaces and Device Contexts

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Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3

4/8/2010

It is often convenient to mix-and-match DirectDraw and GDI services to manipulate the contents of DirectDraw surfaces. DirectDraw offers methods to enable GDI to access DirectDraw surfaces through device contexts, and to retrieve a surface given the surface's device context.

The following topics describe this functionality in detail:

• Retrieving the Device Context for a Surface
• Finding a Surface with a Device Context