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Creating Azure DevOps CI Pipeline with PB2025
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  1. Christopher Altvater
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  3. Monday, 17 November 2025 09:11 PM UTC

Hello,

I have a couple of questions regarding ADO Repos and CI pipelines using Azure DevOps for a PB application. My application is in PB2025, and I have the PB Utility installed on a self-hosted agent. 

About four years ago, we migrated the PB source code from TFS to a repo in ADO. Each PBL has its sperate folder for the object source files and the version of the source files seem to be the same version of when the migration was done. There is another folder, ws_objects, with another set of library folders and these source files are of the current version. These folders only contain the source files and no PBL files. 

On my development machine, I have TortoseGit installed and all of the GIT operations have worked fine in PB2019 and PB2025. I am able to create a branch, commit local changes, push the change and pull to the local master after a completed pull request. Everything has been fine, until I needed to create a CI pipeline in ADO.

In ADO, I create a pipeline with the classic editor and my Azure Repo. The Get Sources task copied the source files to the agent, and it created empty PBL files in the folders. I used the parameters for the command line from the project and the PB auto builder would start, but end in failure. 

After a while, I realized the list of folders didn't have the latest versions and so I looked at the folders under ws_objects. I had some better luck with these folders, but it was still failing and the PBLs on the agent were still empty.

I tried adding the PBLs from my development machine to ADO and the pipeline was successful in doing a build on the agent.

My first question is my repo setup with the two sets of PBL folders correct? Having a set of folders with an old version of the source doesn't seem right. Should I only be concerned with the folders under ws_objects?

My other question is should I include the PBL files in ADO repo? If it should be included, is there a setup document for this?

Thanks for any help on this.

Chris Altvater

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