There are plenty of code examples on MELABS site along with the documentation about using MPLAB. Specific MPLAB instructions would come from MICROCHIP as it is their IDE.

This forum over the years has become the unofficial/official forum for PBP. Anyone that knows PBP and has the inclination to help others are on this forum.

As far as running MPLAB with PBP... MPLAB is just a "cool tool". You can write code in Note Pad or Emacs just as easy, then compile with command line commands.

To get started, Micro Code Studio is probably the best bet. The system paths do not need to be changed as they do with MPLAB and the syntax coloring is good. It even has a serial terminal built in.

Give a specific question or problem and someone here will help you out. If it is something that can not be answered here the support from MELABS is very good also.