Extract text from Visual C++ projects (VCPROJ)
To convert VCPROJ projects to another format, you need Microsoft Visual Studio or other Developer software.
To convert other file formats to the "Legacy Project Configuration" file type, you need software like Microsoft Visual Studio or a similar tool.
The .vcproj file is an XML formatted project file used by legacy versions of Microsoft Visual Studio (specifically Visual C++ 2002 through 2008). It stores developer configurations, compiler flags, linked libraries, and relative paths to source code files like cpp and h.
The primary disadvantage of the .vcproj format is strict obsolescence. Modern development environments do not support it natively. It lacks integration with modern CI/CD pipelines and cannot compile using current C++ language standards. If you attempt to compile a legacy project today, you are blocked until you migrate the file.
Users typically need to convert .vcproj to vcxproj to continue software development. Because project files contain deeply specific and proprietary compiler rules, standard online converters fail to migrate the build logic properly. Only the original software or specialized migration scripts can properly read or export the build data to newer systems.
Despite these conversion challenges, convert.guru can still identify the file format, inspect the file, and show text or internal content. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. Since the underlying format is standard XML, our analysis easily detects the embedded text, allowing you to view and extract the raw configuration parameters instantly.
Convert.Guru analyzes your VCPROJ file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted VCXPROJ, XBF, USER, SETS and CMAKE files.
If you want to convert VCPROJ file to VCXPROJ, CMAKE, JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, C, CS, PHP, RB or GO, you can use Microsoft Visual Studio or similar software from the "C++ Project Configuration" 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 VCPROJ, try Microsoft Visual Studio or another comparable tool in the "C++ Project Configuration" 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 VCPROJ converter.