Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your VCXPROJ file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert VCXPROJ to another file type
To convert your VCXPROJ file to another format, you need Visual_Studio or other Developer software.
Convert a file to VCXPROJ
To convert other file formats to the "Build Configuration" file type, you need software like Visual_Studio or a similar tool.
About VCXPROJ files
A .VCXPROJ file is an XML-based project configuration file created by Microsoft Visual Studio for C++ development. It acts as the blueprint for building an application, storing critical metadata such as source code file paths, compiler settings, linker options, and target platform configurations (e.g., x64 or ARM). While the format is text-based, it is tightly coupled with the MSBuild system, making it difficult to interpret without a deep understanding of Microsoft's build logic. Because it relies on absolute or relative paths specific to the original developer's environment, moving these files between machines often results in "missing file" errors unless the exact directory structure is replicated. Furthermore, viewing these files requires either installing the massive Visual Studio IDE - which can consume over 50GB of disk space - or parsing through hundreds of lines of raw, verbose XML tags in a text editor. For documentation, auditing, or sharing project structures with non-developers, converting .VCXPROJ files is often necessary. To archive project settings or generate readable reports, convert to PDF. For stripping away XML syntax to extract file lists or dependencies for analysis, convert to TXT or JSON.
Convert.Guru analyzes your VCXPROJ file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert VCXPROJ file to CMAKE, MAKEFILE, VCPROJ, MP4, JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, C, CS or PHP, you can use 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 VCXPROJ, try Visual_Studio or another comparable tool in the "C++ Project Configuration" category.
The VCXPROJ Converter Story
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 VCXPROJ converter.