Glad to hear your new toy has arrived

Personally I use Microcode Studio for the IDE with my EasyPIC 5 board. It is quick to set up as it can find both the PBP exe and MPASM and the picFlash exe files automatically. I'm not sure how MCS works with the ICD option available on the EasyPIC 6 board though, maybe Alain can help out on that score.

For me, I like MCS. Make a change to the code, click compile and program and job done. Testing further changes is quicker as you already have the PicFLASH application open, so just click reload and click write after re-compiling.