1. I avoided what you call the 'new mechanism' because it doesn't support different device and driver files for each compiler version. I had found a posting by Ttelmah tha ...
The first point is valid - we are maintaining our old system as long as possible for support, but not new work. I can't even find MPLab 8 on the Microchip website any more ...
I've been using PCWH version 5 with MPLab 8 but now that I'm switching to a new computer (Win7) it is time that I switched to MPLab X. I'm finding that the basic instructions don't solve my is ...