diff --git a/common/vsprops/BaseProperties.props b/common/vsprops/BaseProperties.props
index 0f8385d3f8..bbc3dcee96 100644
--- a/common/vsprops/BaseProperties.props
+++ b/common/vsprops/BaseProperties.props
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
       <SubSystem>Windows</SubSystem>
     </Link>
     <PreBuildEvent>
-      <Command>"$(SvnCommonDir)\vsprops\preBuild.cmd" "$(ProjectRootDir)"</Command>
+      <Command>"$(SolutionDir)common\vsprops\preBuild.cmd"</Command>
     </PreBuildEvent>
     <ResourceCompile>
       <AdditionalIncludeDirectories>$(SolutionDir)\common\include;$(SolutionDir)\3rdparty\wxwidgets3.0\include;%(AdditionalIncludeDirectories)</AdditionalIncludeDirectories>
diff --git a/plugins/GSdx/vsprops/common.props b/plugins/GSdx/vsprops/common.props
index 508d213c66..f421bb2e9d 100644
--- a/plugins/GSdx/vsprops/common.props
+++ b/plugins/GSdx/vsprops/common.props
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
       <AdditionalLibraryDirectories>$(VTUNE_AMPLIFIER_XE_2015_DIR)lib32;%(AdditionalLibraryDirectories)</AdditionalLibraryDirectories>
     </Link>
     <PreBuildEvent>
-      <Command>"$(SvnCommonDir)\vsprops\preBuild.cmd" "$(ProjectRootDir)"</Command>
+      <Command>"$(SolutionDir)common\vsprops\preBuild.cmd"</Command>
     </PreBuildEvent>
   </ItemDefinitionGroup>
 </Project>