John Kirk wrote:
>
> ... Having a piece of software install and work the first time is not
> hard to test before shipping it, but MicroChip did not bother to do this.
> Good luck: John Kirk

Well, two things:
  1. The interim software versions are not fully tested, and this is published
in
      our documentation.  Interim software releases are usually to support new
      parts and don't go through our full test cycle (but do go through all of
      our automated regression tests).
  2. This version was pretty well tested, but it's a new paradigm.  If it's
      not what you were used to it's because of two reasons.  These two reasons
      were the two biggest customer requests for MPLAB:
         - PLEASE support other software tools (CCS, HI-TECH, etc.)
         - PLEASE make projects handle more than a single source file.

Both of these features were added, and as a result the Project Manager is a
little
more complex.  For that reason, we published the MPLAB v3.40 Project Tutorial
and
EVERYWHERE we could, advised people to read it to get up to date on the new
Project
Manager.

We feel pretty good about the feedback so far, but it seems that not everyone
has gone
through the tutorial.  If you're having problems, please download that and step
through
it.

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