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Stepping Through/Debugging Base code

I want to be able to step through base code as part of diagnosing and understand underlying logic better.

For context I get requests for changes and I need to figure which event to subscribe to.

Using AL Object designer I've search through code to find what I think is the correct event.

However it'd be much easier to just set a break point in code, launch and then debug and step through logic.

The best I could find are articles are following articles, which are from 2019:

https://community.dynamics.com/forums/thread/details/?threadid=a3d17def-62f3-4a1a-935f-480bd9e9be43
https://demiliani.com/2019/10/25/dynamics-365-business-central-debugging-the-base-application/

Has this process changed much today (2023)? Is there a different way of doing and if not are there any more up to date guides/changes since the above articles?

So below is a starting point - installing a Docker sandboxed BC instance using the latest image, then extracting the source for Base App.. is

$credential = Get-Credential
$artifactUrl = Get-BcArtifactUrl -type sandbox -select latest
$credential = New-Object pscredential 'admin', (ConvertTo-SecureString -String 'P@ssword1' -AsPlainText -Force)
New-BcContainer -accept_eula -artifactUrl $artifactUrl -containerName bcserver -includeTestLibrariesOnly -includeTestToolkit -updateHosts -auth NavUserPassword -includeAl -Credential $credential

$containername = 'bcserver'
$alProjectFolder = /C://data//bc/
Create-AlProjectFolderFromBCContainer -containerName $containername -alProjectFolder $alProjectFolder -useBaseAppProperties -useBaseLine

TIA

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