DirectX9 Initialize Problem

Question

Hello Community,

I just started with DirectX Development and instantly encountered a problem. While initializing the program just stops running (without throwing an exception) and hence won't show at all. Here is the code:

public class MainForm : Form
    {
        private Device device;
        private System.ComponentModel.Container components = null;
        
        public MainForm()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }
        
        #region Windows
        protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
        {
            if (disposing) {
                if (components != null) {
                    components.Dispose();
                }
            }
            base.Dispose(disposing);
        }
        
        private void InitializeComponent()
        {
            this.components = new System.ComponentModel.Container();
            this.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(500, 500);
            this.Text = "DirectX_Test";
        }
        #endregion
        
        public bool InitializeGraphics()
        {
            try
            {
                PresentParameters presentParams = new PresentParameters();
                presentParams.Windowed = true;
                presentParams.SwapEffect = SwapEffect.Discard;
                device = new Device(0, DeviceType.Hardware, this, CreateFlags.SoftwareVertexProcessing, presentParams);
                return true;
            }
            catch (DirectXException)
            { 
                return false; 
            }
        }
        
        protected override void OnPaint(System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs e)
        {
            device.Clear(ClearFlags.Target, Color.DarkSlateBlue , 1.0f, 0);
            device.Present();
        }
        
        #region StaticMain
        [STAThread]
        private static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            using (MainForm frm = new MainForm())
            {
                if(!frm.InitializeGraphics())   // Problem here <----
                {
                    MessageBox.Show("Could not initialize Direct3D.  This tutorial will exit.");
                    return;
                }
                frm.Show();
            }
        }
        #endregion
    }

Now, when I tried to debug right at frm.InitializeGraphics(). It won't even enter the method it just does nothing. When I remove the code inside that method it will show so I figured there must be a problem with the DirectX.

I run the DirectX9 SDK June '10.

Any ideas or help?

Thank you.