Device.DrawPrimitives Method

Article
10/20/2012

Renders a sequence of non-indexed geometric primitives of the specified type from the current set of data input streams.

Namespace: Microsoft.WindowsMobile.DirectX.Direct3D
Assembly: Microsoft.WindowsMobile.DirectX (in Microsoft.WindowsMobile.DirectX.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Sub DrawPrimitives ( _
    primitiveType As PrimitiveType, _
    startVertex As Integer, _
    primitiveCount As Integer _
)
'Usage
Dim instance As Device 
Dim primitiveType As PrimitiveType 
Dim startVertex As Integer 
Dim primitiveCount As Integer

instance.DrawPrimitives(primitiveType, _
    startVertex, primitiveCount)

public void DrawPrimitives(
    PrimitiveType primitiveType,
    int startVertex,
    int primitiveCount
)

public:
void DrawPrimitives(
    PrimitiveType primitiveType, 
    int startVertex, 
    int primitiveCount
)

public function DrawPrimitives(
    primitiveType : PrimitiveType, 
    startVertex : int, 
    primitiveCount : int
)

Parameters

primitiveType
Type: Microsoft.WindowsMobile.DirectX.Direct3D.PrimitiveType

A member of the PrimitiveType enumerated type that describes the type of primitive to render.

startVertex
Type: System.Int32

An index of the first vertex to load. Beginning at startVertex, the correct number of vertices is read out of the vertex buffer.

primitiveCount
Type: System.Int32

A number of primitives to render. To determine the maximum number of primitives allowed, check MaxPrimitiveCount. The primitiveCount is the number of primitives as determined by the primitive type. If it is a line list, each primitive has two vertices. If it is a triangle list, each primitive has three vertices.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
InvalidCallException	The method call is invalid. For example, a method's parameter might contain an invalid value.

Remarks

This method should not be called with a single triangle at a time.

.NET Framework Security

Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.

Platforms

Windows CE, Windows Mobile for Smartphone, Windows Mobile for Pocket PC

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

Version Information

.NET Compact Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 2.0

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