MSVC provides us with a bunch of build macros (listed here) that we can use in property pages to easily reference a handful of common directories. Well I have a project I'm working on where I need to copy a lot of files around as custom build steps, and I'd like to create my own macros to make it easier to create the build steps. However I've been searching all over I can't seem to find anything that tells me how, or whether it's even possible. If not I'll type the directory paths in full each and every time, but this would be more convenient if possible because a lot of my paths are quite long.

You can just use envirorment variables, so if you have registered ENGINE_HOME you could use $(ENGINE_HOME)\Lib

Ah so I can use environment variables in the same way, thanks! That will do what I need [grin]