What to use instead DirectDraw

Question

I've just rebuilt my old DirectDraw based game and I'm very happy with the results! It was one of my first C++ programs in a diectx world. But I was disappointed to discover that DirectDraw is deprecated. After installing DirectX SDK July 2010 there is no ddraw.h and ddraw.lib.

My question: how to port my DirectDraw based 2D game to the recent DircetX SDK? Is there any DirectDraw replacement?

What about OpenGL? Any idea would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Take a look at Direct2D. A tutorial can be found here, for instance.