Hello,
Unfortunately, I may not be your best resource on how to do this in VC++, but I feel like I should tell you about NI Vision. Vision is a collection of functions for processing and analyzing images within Labview, C, VB, etc. These functions can be called and used to open your images, perform processing, filtering, edge detection, pattern matching, etc.
Additionally, the module includes the basic functions to translate an image to an array.
Heres a link:
Vision
For help reading your data from file and into an array in VC++, you might check out Microsoft's MSDN site.
MSDN
Robert
