VS 2008 Reading Image Files?

First of all, I have an image file, below is an image of squares with stripped lines,showing where each square is going to be. Each square is exactly 1cm and each space between squares is also 1cm.Fig 1 - Position of Each SquareLater on, these squares are going to be black, and for each black square, the value is one, if it's blank then the value is 0. Here is some examplesFig 2 - Completed Squares, this one reads "101", one square is filled, then a blank square, then another filled square.Fig 3 - Completed Squares, this one reads "010", one blank square, then a filled square, then another blank square