How to add custom build steps to TFS 2015

Question

I found these custom build tasks for TFS at https://github.com/Microsoft/vso-agent-tasks . How do I make these tasks available to my TFS build server ? The documentation is not very clear.

Answer 1

Those aren't custom build tasks... those are the official build tasks that are included in VSTS/TFS.

The documentation on how to upload them is actually extremely clear and well-documented :

• Install the TFX CLI
• Use the command tfx build tasks upload to upload the task.

If you're using on-premise TFS, some of the unpublished tasks may not work as they may depend on a later version of the build agent than what ships with TFS currently.