[David Bliss]

You probably want to look into WPILib. Some of the samples should look somewhat familiar. If you don't use WPILib, you eventually try to mix oil and water. That becomes particularly obvious with the various sensors; unless I'm mistaken, all the functions easyC uses to work with sensors just plain don't exist in the default code, nor in Kevin's code.

There are plenty of threads out there on using WPILib. I haven't looked for one that covers using WPILib with MPLab, because I personally prefer to go with Eclipse. If there's no thread already, you should get an answer soon enough from someone if you post in WPILib's subforum.

Good luck.