I wrote a program that generates fractals in visual basic. The way it currently works is that I pass the function a handle to a device context and it uses SetPixel to draw to that hDC.

Open Visual Studio and click the "File" menu. Select the "Open Project" option and navigate to the folder where you saved your Visual Basic project.

Launch Visual Basic 6 or Visual Basic Express. Open the project file in which you want to create a module and command button that creates an Excel spreadsheet from selected data.

It's easy to miss that you've opened a read-only file in Visual Studio: When you open a file you can't change, a tiny little lock icon appears on the tab of the editor window to the right of the ...