MCS is Crashing

[HenrikOlsson]

As I've said, I've had it crash at home and at work. One machine running W7 Home 64bit Swedish with the bought MCSPX, the other running W7 Pro 64bit English with the free MCSX. Both PBP3.0.x.x

At home I've upgraded my personal license to PBP3.1 on a brand new machine running W10 Pro but haven't been doing much with it lately so it's still low mileage (very much so).

I'm not a PC software developer but I'm pretty sure it's got nothing to do with the compiler, it's not when compiling/assembling that it crashes, it's when typing in your program. I've got screencapture (video) of it doing it if that would help....

[mark_s]

As Henrik points out it's not pbp3, the problem is MCSX. MCS is stable but pbp3 will only run on MCSX. A lot of software developers like to blame their bugs on WIN7,8,10. I am using XP and this pc is only used for programming pics. My home system is still stable so if I need something not supported by 2.60 it can get done.

[picster]

I'm using some PICS specific to PBP3... kind of locked into MCSX in that respect (sadly).

[Ioannis]

Can this https://code.visualstudio.com/ be used in place of the MCS?

Ioannis

[mpgmike]

Looks like PC programming only. There is a list of programming languages at the bottom of the page. Even though it lists C+, C++, C# and variations, it appears to be a rival to the Professional version of Visual Studio (which I have), not for MPLAB, MPLABX, MCS, etc. I would think there are other considerations beyond the PC that MCS & MPLAB(X) deal with for the PIC. Don't know. It's a free download if you want to give it a try.

[picster]

Since I migrated to Windows 10 on one of my machines, I haven't experienced a crash on it while using MCS (it was doing it regularly under Windows 7).

Does anyone who is using W10 have crashes while using MCS?