Hi Alain,

Yes I got your point. I posted this wish kist from a perspective of a new comer on this arena.
I started this programming stuff on uChips 2 years ago. Learning curve wise, way then I can say its flat. Because I didnt know this site exist, its just that few months ago a forum of this kind here in my country was make known to me by a test engineer working in uchip phil office.

From then on, I got to learn of edaboard, this site and other related site on basic programming.For the last two years I only read the PBP manual, a book by Jon Iovine, Karl Williams and by Mr. McComb. From this books I didnt get to know other IDE. You may say why I didnt visit the uChip site? yes I do & I read a lot but topics, but regarding PBP this are seldom posted on the site.

Now I got interested on simulation & debugging for the reason that while on a business trip I cant bring my hardware with me so to test my program I need something that is handy. Then this acquintance of mine from Uchip showed me MPLAB & his talent on machine laguage programming.

Now this arose my interest on MPLAB & ask myself how about using PBP on this IDE. So this is started my venture on this combo.

Another instance,...ICD wise I read a lot on this under MCS, as a new comer I need something to practice on before purchasing the MCSP (for practical reason) but pic16f628 cant be purchase here in our country. Now compare to MPLAB you name the model.

So I wont give all the reason why I got interested on this combination but one thing is definit, I find PBP simple to use but I find MPLAB has a lot of free options to offer, a lot of feature in one package and constant updates. Not to mention the open source nature of its pickit2 hardware and its IDE software.I believe this can be use now in other IDE.
Unlike before its development hardwares are fully integrate to MPLAB, why they are making this business move.

Time changes & business should cope with it. It is true no matter what tools you have it will all go down to the skill on how we develope programs. But if your tools can be flexible & robust you can have a lot of advantage on the arena.

So I thought of having this wish list posted to have one consolidated manual on this combo. If your a pro you wont find it necessary. But for the next generation of programmers...this is something better.

Like I said on my first post see the viewing figure.