First of all - thanks to all who have responded and made suggestions on this.

I simply cannot get this to work -

I went so far as printing out the page that Darrel posted with his step - by - step instructions, and - as far as I know - after three times - followed them to the letter.

Obviously not - all that happens is the project compiles, there is a momentary screen flash after successful assembly - then nothing, just success at compiling. I tried Jim's code as well - same thing.

Also deleted previous attempts at selecting the programmer , so as to start from scratch -

At first MCS could not find the PICKit folder, - I changed to finding it automatically, it then found the PICkit folder - but still no success.

I also re-extracted all the PICKit2 Command Line Interface files from Microchip's site to the PICkit folder - . . .twice

Anyway - - thanks to all - - I do not intend to "beat this to death" - - I'm perfectly content to continue doing the extra step using PICkit software separately. It works fine, and that is basically all I want.

Thanks again

Ken