No. VB.Net is not backwards compatible. There are tricks to migrate some 60% of VB 6 code to VB.Net, but it's error-prone and unreliable.
>> "So does VB.NET run older VB.6 code, unmodified?"
> No. VB.Net is not backwards compatible. There are
> tricks to migrate some 60% of VB 6 code to VB.Net,
> but it's error-prone and unreliable.
Sounds like the enterprises using VB6 have a bigger
beef with MS than the VB programmers do.