Hi,
I picked up one of these low cost programmers at the current 50% discount offer price from microchipDIRECT making the part extremely cheap. Now trying to get it to work and could use some help.

I have Microchip's dedicated programming software installed, i.e. MPLAB X IPE v5.00. The Snap is plugged into a USB and the green Active led is on. However, when attempting to select a programming device from the software's Tools screen there are no choices listed on the drop menu. Why is this?

Further examining the Tools > Plugins tab I see 27 Installed and Active devices, including one called "snap", but again, nothing come up on the Select Tool drop down.