I purchased the PicKitPlus as a last resort to program some 16F1788s for a project. Stuffed around with MPLABX and X IPE for a week trying to make that solution work - gave up and purchased the tool. Ever since I use nothing but PicKitPlus now. Haven't touched my PicKit3 since... haven't needed to. I highly recommend it as I know anything PBP supports, it will too.

Troy