VBGamer

HELP!!!, I need a really easy to understand and well explained tutorial on using direct X 7 to make a game with a tile based map - I already have source code to display the map but it uses randomly place tiles and I don't know how to write a map to tell the program where to put specific tiles and where in the code this should go. I also need to know how to blit (i think this is correct) images in front of the map to create my interface which will remain static while the user scrolls around the map. Many Many thanx if you can help me. p.s any other well explained info that you think may be useful would be much appreciated