Quote Originally Posted by duncan303 View Post
Well I have just come to the end of day having finally unpacked a pickit2 debug express DV164121 which has a 16F887 on a small dev board.

Although I researched MPLAB IDE a few years ago I have had little further to do with it preferring the easier option of MCSP 3.0.0.5 together with Melabs serial programmers and of course PBP2.50a...............
First I loaded the PICkit 2v2 software which was straightforward except for the fact that it took at least an hour and half for the “necessary” Net framework to be installed, I hoped this was not going to be an omen for badly written code, ..................

Off to have a glass of wine…. Oh yeah Happy Easter to you All
I had downloaded the PICKIT2 with .net elements from microchip site. It did not take that sort of time for me. If I remember, it took hardly less than 10 mnts