diff --git a/modules/vstudio/_preload.lua b/modules/vstudio/_preload.lua
index d539ded2e..3f82596d3 100644
--- a/modules/vstudio/_preload.lua
+++ b/modules/vstudio/_preload.lua
@@ -37,6 +37,13 @@
 		kind = "boolean"
 	}
 
+	p.api.register {
+		name = "publicmoduledirectories",
+		scope = "config",
+		kind = "list:string",
+		tokens = true,
+	}
+
 	p.api.register {
 		name = "assemblydebug",
 		scope = "config",
diff --git a/modules/vstudio/vs2010_vcxproj.lua b/modules/vstudio/vs2010_vcxproj.lua
index d880a8a17..ce7d7e606 100644
--- a/modules/vstudio/vs2010_vcxproj.lua
+++ b/modules/vstudio/vs2010_vcxproj.lua
@@ -377,6 +377,7 @@
 				m.extensionsToDeleteOnClean,
 				m.executablePath,
 				m.allModulesPublic,
+				m.publicModuleDirectories,
 				m.clangtidy,
 				m.runcodeanalysis
 			}
@@ -2099,6 +2100,14 @@
 		end
 	end
 
+	function m.publicModuleDirectories(cfg)
+		if _ACTION >= "vs2019" then
+			if cfg.publicmoduledirectories ~= nil and #cfg.publicmoduledirectories > 0 then
+				m.element("PublicModuleDirectories", nil,"%s;$(PublicModuleDirectories)", table.concat(cfg.publicmoduledirectories, ";"))
+			end
+		end
+	end
+
 	function m.structMemberAlignment(cfg)
 		local map = {
 			[1] = "1Byte",