Got my PICkit 2 today. I started playing around with the MPLAB IDE and it seems that I can't build/debug C files. I thought I would be able to make a HEX file from a C program. Looks like I need something called the ICD header to do that. 
So my question is...what exactly CAN I do with the software and hardware included with the PICkit 2 Starter Kit? I couldn't even load the demos because the PICkit 2 programmer says they are too big.
So my question is...what exactly CAN I do with the software and hardware included with the PICkit 2 Starter Kit? I couldn't even load the demos because the PICkit 2 programmer says they are too big.