Extract text from VBG files
To convert your VBG file to another format, you need Visual Basic 6.0 or other Developer software.
To convert other file formats to the "IDE Project Group" file type, you need software like Visual Basic 6.0 or a similar tool.
A .VBG file is a legacy Project Group configuration used by Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0. It acts as a master workspace wrapper, allowing developers to load and compile multiple related projects (VBP files) simultaneously within a single IDE session. While the file itself is simple ASCII text, its utility is strictly tied to the obsolete Visual Basic 6.0 environment.
Users typically encounter significant friction when trying to modernize legacy codebases. Because VB6 reached its end-of-life years ago, modern IDEs like Visual Studio do not natively open .VBG files. To work with the code today, you face a distinct lock-in problem: you either need to virtualize a Windows XP environment to run the original software, or migrate the group structure to a modern SLN (Solution) format. This migration is not a simple 1:1 conversion and often fails with complex dependencies. For archival and analysis purposes, converting the .VBG to TXT or PDF is the most pragmatic approach to document the project hierarchy without fighting dependency errors.
Convert.Guru analyzes your VBG file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted PNG, JPG, CTL, VBW and SOB files.
If you want to convert VBG file to JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, C, CS, PHP, RB, GO, RS or SWIFT, you can use Visual Basic 6.0 or similar software from the "Legacy Project Grouping" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SH, PY, KT, PS1, SWIFT, LUA, PL, JAVA, SCALA, JS, VBS or TS files to VBG, try Visual Basic 6.0 or another comparable tool in the "Legacy Project Grouping" category.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our VBG converter.