Free alternative to MPLAB (PIC development)

Question

I started using MPLAB recently, but for someone that works with Eclipse and VS the IDE it\'s very limited. Do you know any free IDE or how to configure Ecplise or Netbeans to PI

Answer 1

Do you know any free IDE or how to configure Ecplise or Netbeans to PIC development?

No, but I'd write a US$100 check of my own money in a heartbeat, if Eclipse were available for PICs. The poor quality of MPLAB has been my one and only reason why I don't use Microchip processors anymore. TI's Code Composer is Eclipse-based and it is hugely easier to use and much more reliable than MPLAB.

You could run Eclipse CDT and presumably configure it to use the Microchip compiler (caveat: I've never done this myself). But you wouldn't get any debugging capability, which is 90%+ of the value of an IDE.