Debugging code not working well

Visual Studio Community 2017
Visual Micro extension for Arduino and Visual Studio
ESP8266 NodeMCU LUA CP2102 ESP-12 board

When I set the compiler for “Release” in Visual Studio I have no problems. However, when I set the compiler to “Debug”, the code will upload, but only run one time in five to ten tries. It gets “stuck” at the
Blynk.begin(auth, ssid, pass) line, i.e., the function does not return.

I’d like to use the debugging capabilities of Visual Studio. Is there something about Blynk I am missing?

That is a normally blocking command… no connection, no continue.

As to whether you can bypass that more often in Visual Studio’s debug is a question for their support site.