Windows 10: Porting BIG VB6 project to VB.net

I have VB6 project with about 150,000 code lines that controls sophisticated automatic/manual calibration system. The system hardware was recently updated and some of the hardware drivers does not support any more VB6 32 bit applications.The whole calibration software package include 22 applications including 3 data acquisition programs, data bases applications and data reduction and analysis applications. I designed the system and wrote all the code.I consider now to rewrite the one problematic data acquisition calibration program in VB.net 2022 to solve the 32 bit issue.This program has abou

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VB6 or VB.Net?

This describes some of the many differences between VB6 and VB.NET. Much of the current VB6 code base will not run under VB.NET due to changes in VB.NET's syntax and language, its use of the new common runtime, and its switch to WinForms from the VB6 form model.

Visual Basic.NET includes an upgrade tool to assist in converting VB6 projects to .NET. The tool adds an upgrade report to your project listing any problems and inserts comments into your code and To Do items into the new Task List indicating where additional changes need to be made.

However, understanding the following changes can help simplify migrating your existing VB6 code. For further information on this topic, visit Microsoft's web site.
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VB6 on Win10

Hello All,

I have an EXE which was written in VB6 edition. It uses a "Comm Port" and lists all the available COMM ports of the system in a drop down. This EXE works well on Win7 and Win8.

But, when we use this EXE (developed in VB6) on Win10 OS, then dropdown containing the list of COMM ports is empty (even if the computer has few COMM ports available).

We have another EXE developed in VB2010 edition. This EXE lists all the COMM ports in a dropdown on: Win7, Win8 and Win10.

But, an EXE developed in VB6 doesn't work on Win10.

My expectation:

1. Can we "somehow" make an EXE (written in VB6) to list all available COMM ports on Win10 OS?

2. If above is not possible, then what is an alternate solution for it?

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Will VB6 run in Lunix

VB 6 wont install on W11, Will VB6 run in Lunix?