Local Flash and Debugger hang in Workbench (VS Code) Windows 10

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@RobotChicken ah, sounds like you've run into:

[ISSUE] Failed to launch OpenOCD GDB Server: Timeout

hey all it seems the extension we depend on to drive debugging - cortex-debug - released an update this morning that broke our integration (details here). if you are using v0.2.4 of the Cortext Debug (one of Particle Workbench’s extension dependencies), debugging will not work. [38%20AM] we’ll be working to get a fix out ASAP but in the meantime, the work-around is to use VSCode’s “Install Another Version” option to revert the “Cortex Debug” extension back to v0.2.3: From VSCode’s m…

sorry about that - i'm working on a fix as we speak but it's proving surprisingly hard to sort out for a lot on non-code related reasons