The assistance they provided got better as the years went by up to about the time of vb2008. Even then the assistance was such that migration of existing vb6 code was recommended by microsoft as the option of last resort. By the release of vb2010 microsoft appeared to have given up on migration completely and removed the upgrade tool from the product.
Too little too late is probably a fair description of it.
Yes, but "a bumpy road is still a road". Forward does not imply "painless", and Microsoft did try to help, even if it felt like "too little too late". VB.NET was still the forward path from VB, whether developers and companies liked that or not.
