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First step is to eliminate the soldering on the board. If you look closely at the traces you'll notice small pads that are test points. If you start at a pin and follow the trace to a test point you will be able to do a continuity check with your meter. If you leads are too large to fit on the test points, you can tape a needle or pin to one of them to allow you fit on the pad. If you can confirm that all the soldering at the ICSP connector is good then you can check the continuity all the way back to the chip. (you'll need to find the spec sheet on the web to see which pin to connect to) According to the sparkfun page I was looking at, the ICSP connector header signals are Vpp, Vdd, GND, RB7 and RB6. The last appears to have no signal.
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LoginWhile that particular tutorial doesn't apply to the PIC32MX795F512L, I'm sure that if you look at the spec sheet you will find (most of) those signals present on pins.
Once you eliminate the board, you are left with the programming device or the chip itself. I'd check the programmer on another board that you know is good. Once you've eliminated that, its time to learn about "reworking".
Here's hoping you find a bad solder joint.
Jamie