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User Interfaces for MPLAB

User Interfaces for MPLAB

Microchip Technology

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Provides graphical user interfaces including a project editor and a kit window to enhance your development experience.
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User Interfaces for MPLAB®

Welcome! We are working hard to improve your experience and appreciate your patience and support. Features and functionality will remain in active development. Your feedback is invaluable to us. Please report any bugs or suggestions for enhancements.

✨ Features

Project Properties

  • User Interface (UI) for configuring MPLAB projects.

Tools and Kits

  • The Tools and kits views provide graphical interfaces within MPLAB extension, offering an organized display of the tools and kits connected to your machine. It's designed to allow users to quickly access and inspect details about their hardware.

🏃‍♀️ Getting started

Project Properties

  • Create an MPLAB project using the command MPLAB: Create New Project.
  • Open the project settings view using the command MPLAB: Edit Project Properties (UI) or right click the project file.
  • Add and configure configurations, file sets, toolchains etc. Changes will be written to the project file.

Screenshot

Tools and Kits

  • Click the MPLAB icon that exist on the left side bar of your vscode. Screenshot

  • Plug in a tool or a kit to your machine. It will appear in the Tools Container as a new node with detailes information.

  • Click to the info icon next to a kit and view Additional information related to the kit.

    Screenshot

  • The tools container will automatically update to refect changes in case of connect or disconnect a new device

  • The tools container included some controls in its title bar for enhanced functionality:

    Screenshot

  • Gear icon : Opens the Project Properties page in the tool settings

  • Info icons : Open the Kit information page which will provide a detailed overview of all connected kits.

Screenshot

💬 Supported commands

Using Command Palette (CMD/CTRL + Shift + P)

Open the projects properties view

> MPLAB: Edit Project Properties (UI)

Listing files in project

> MPLAB: List Included Files

List the connected Kits in the output window

> MPLAB: List Kits Info

Open the MPLAB Kits information view

> MPLAB: Show Kits view

List the connected Tools in the output window

> MPLAB: List Tools Info

Open the MPLAB Tools information view

> MPLAB: Show Tools view

📦 Requirements

  • MPLAB Services

To get toolchain support:

  • MPLAB XC Compilers installation
  • MPLAB Toolchain Support - Interact with installed MPLAB XC Compilers

🐞 Feedback and issue reporting

Go to mplabfeedback.microchip.com to report issues and suggest enhancements.

📝 License Information

The MPLAB® Extensions for Visual Studio Code are distributed under a non-exclusive software license agreement provided by Microchip Technology Inc. To review the complete terms and conditions governing the use of this software, please consult the "license" file included with this package.


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