Good directx tutorials?

There are plenty, YouTube has a fair few videos on the topic, Toy Maker is a good start yes, also take a look at Riemers (I think he works in C#, but they may be some C++ DirectX tutorials about). Also, read some books. An introduction to directx9 a shader approach my Frank P Luna is a great book to get started with, and of course, read the documentation that comes with DirectXSDK and take a look at the samples, I found that for me, to be the most useful.

Good Luck.

If you want to look at DirectX 10 or 11, I found these 2 to be alright:

http://www.rastertek.com/tutindex.html
http://braynzarsoft.net/index.php (the tutorials are hidden in the rollover in the "home" button in the menu)

For DirectX 9, what theark mentioned is what I also would go for.

thanks again theark, i think ill look into toymaker and that book.Thanks for the tutorials Rid, but i am working in directx 9, so they may not work out.
ill be on these forums lots this month, hopefully helpful people like you two will be here to help me.
Thanks

http://www.two-kings.de/ may be of use to you. I've only just skimmed through it, so I can't attest to the quality of code or ease of understanding, but hopefully you can find something helpful there,