Convert (Vb6 style) long rgb value to something useful in vb.net

[nemaroller]

Really, this should be simple...

In VB6, you could represent colors using a long data type for the 64,000+ possible colors.....

So if I have a data item (myMapLine(i).Colour) that holds a line's color using a long between 0 and 64,000, how the heck do I assign that in VB.net?

myPen = New Pen(Color.FromArgb(myMapLine(i).colour), myMapLine(i).thickness)

That doesn't work... nothing appears at all....