How do I draw lines using XNA?

Question

I\'ve read a bunch of tutorials involving XNA (and it\'s various versions) and I still am a little confused on drawing primitives. Everything seems to be really convoluted.

Answer 1

When working with XNA, everything (even 2d primitives) have to be expressed in a way that a 3d card can understand, which means that a line is just a set of vertices.

MSDN has a pretty good walkthrough here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb196414.aspx#ID2EEF

You'll find that it takes more code to render a primitive line than it would take to just setup a textured quad and rotate that, since in essence, your doing the same thing when rendering a line.