error C2065: 'DirectInputCreate' : undeclared identifier

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Q. When attempting to compile under the DirectX 8 SDK, I recieve a compiler error stating that  DirectInputCreateEx or DirectInputCreate is an undeclared identifier.

Compiling code for previous versions of DirectInput under DirectX 8, you must define a constant specifying the required version support prior to including dinput.h.  Define DIRECTINPUT_VERSIONto be equal to 0x300, 0x0500, or 0x0700, like this:

#define DIRECTINPUT_VERSION 0x0700
#include <dinput.h>