How to add PICkit3 to VSCode?

[trastikata]

Hello,

as the title says, is it possible to add PICkit3 and if possible some guidance how to do it would be much appreciated.

Thank you.

[Frizie]

Trastikata, I'd love to help you, as you're always ready to help, but I only have the descriptions for PICkit2 and PICkit4, and not for VSCode, but for the Positron IDE.

But I don't think PICkit3 is much different from PICkit2 and 4.
https://www.picbasic.nl/instelling_pickit2_uk.htm
and
https://www.picbasic.nl/instelling_pickit4.htm

I think Atomix can best answer how to set these parameters in VSCode.
You could also ask ChatGPT for the VSCode part 

[jaka]

If you use this command line tool:
https://github.com/jaka-fi/pk2cmd
You can use same instructions as for PICkit2

You must first update the scripting firmware with the GUI software before you can use it with the pk2cmd. And you also need to revert back to MPLAB mode with the GUI tool if you want to use the PICkit3 with MPLAB again.
https://github.com/jaka-fi/PICkitminus

Other solutions are to use IPECMD (slow) or the old pk3cmd which came with MPLAB 8.

[atomix]

I use PICkitminus. Thanks a lot for this Jaka. 

And you can configure any programmer in VSCode by simply configuring its launch settings.