Hi,

Thanks for buying the tools.

I expect the system thinks the sketch is in debug mode which means you either click the blue square icon on the tool bar to stop debug or close the serial monitor or click "debug>Start without debugging". In debug mode F5 becomes the "Continue" short cut key allowing the code to progress from a breakpoint.

You can also switch off debug by unticking "tools>visual micro>automatic debug" so that compile and upload is normal (once you have stopped the debug process). Or you can switch the tool bar configuration from "Debug" to "Release" which also ensures that all F5 uploads are non-debug mode.

I hope this makes sense?

The debugger is documented lower down on this page http://www.visualmicro.com/page/User-Guide.aspx?doc=index

Thanks