Firmware portability goes higher as MCU goes better

From PIC24F onwards, the softwae portability increases when programmer uses the build in functions in port.h such as mPORTxConfig() in C30.

MPLAB goes X = MPLABX

Newly netbean based will have ellipse look will code auto complete as well as graphical function view.In addition, you will now have history. Place that stores all the changes that you have done on the project. If you want to try it, do grab them from the link.

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Multiple project compilation for MPLAB

In default, MPLAB is configured for one to one workspace compilation. To enable the multiple workspace:

Configure -> Settings -> Projects -> 'untick' use one to one project-workspace model