Loading and using an HLSL shader?

Question

I've been looking everywhere and all I can find are tutorials on writing the shaders. None of them showed me how to incorporate them into my scene.

So essentially:

Given an hlsl shader, if I were to have a function called drawTexturedQuad() and I wanted the shader to be applied to the result, how exactly could I do this?

Thanks

Answer 1

ID3DXEffect provides Begin() and BeginPass() methods. Simply call drawQuad() during that time. Any basic tutorial on shaders should show such a sample.

Just an additional note- if in doubt, ask MSDN.