Debugging a Remote Event Receiver using service bus

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I want to develop a remote event receiver for SharePoint online document library. But i am having difficulties in debugging this remote event receiver from visual studio . I found this link https://blog.virtosoftware.com/remote-event-receivers-creating-and-debugging-sharepoint-online/ which describes how to use service bus for debugging, but when I tried to create the service bus I got this error message: -

 
New-AzureSBNamespace "TestTestingServiceBus" -CreateACSNamespace $true -NamespaceType Messaging

New-AzureSBNamespace : <string xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/">{"Details":"Azure Service
Management APIs have been deprecated for messaging services as of November 1, 2021 and replaced with Azure Resource
Management APIs. For more information, please visit
https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/asm-api-messaging-services-retirement/"}</string>
At line:1 char:1
+ New-AzureSBNamespace "TestTestingServiceBus" -CreateACSNamespace $tru ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : CloseError: (:) [New-AzureSBNamespace], CloudException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Commands.ServiceBus.NewAzureSBNamespaceCommand

so seems the approach mentioned in the link is very old. So can anyone help me to figure out how we can debug remote event receivers in SharePoint online?

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We currently use this devtunnel tool provided by MS
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/dev-tunnels/get-started?tabs=windows
You can host a tunnel to your project hosted locally

@Waaromiknietthanks for the reply and link, so  did you use this fro debugging remote event receiver? Second question, is this tool a reverse proxy? similar to ngrok ?

Yes, This is similar to Ngrok. Except it is free to use (for now). You log in using your M365 account
We indeed use it to debug our remote event recievers.

@WaaromiknietI tried to debug a test remote event receiver but could not find the way to do so,, can you advice on the needed steps please?

Can you validate that your RER is firing? How did you connect your RER to the list? When using PnP.PowerShell there is a problem of RER's not firing.
See this post : https://github.com/pnp/powershell/issues/3169

During debugging you have to attach your RER using the url generated by the devtunnel application.

These are the steps I used

I have a WCF RER hosted in my project in folder services\rer.svc
I host this project local on port 53797
I push F5 and run the project.
My service is running at http://localhost:53797/services/rer.svc
I run .\devtunnel.exe user login and login with my M365 account
I run .\devtunnel.exe host -p 53797 --allow-anonymous
I get a devtunnel URL. For example https://gblq14ee-53797.euw.devtunnels.ms
I attach my rer with this url https://gblq14ee-53797.euw.devtunnels.ms/services/rer.svc