[Andrew Schreiber]

You could conceivably use mpLab as you Development Environment but the code would basically be useless. The new controller will either use C++ OR Labview. Now, C and C++ are very similar but I doubt any old code will work.

Onward and Forward, the quickest and possibly easiest way to learn labview is to play with it. It is available from the FIRST website. NI has many tutorials out specifically for FRC teams to learn.

Now if you wanted to use C++ the best thing to do NOW would be start learning it.