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.

The basic file-handling commands had not changed; just a few more features had been added. With Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft introduced a new, object-oriented method for working with files.

Despite the file extensions you see in the Add Existing Item dialog box, Visual Studio isn't limited to working with specific kinds of files. If you have some file that you want to include in your ...