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 VCXPROJ projects to another format, you need Microsoft Visual Studio or other Developer software.
Convert a file to VCXPROJ
To convert other file formats to the "Visual C++ Project File" file type, you need software like Microsoft Visual Studio or a similar tool.
About VCXPROJ files
A .vcxproj file is an XML-based project file used by Microsoft Visual Studio for C++ software development. It stores build configurations, compiler paths, file references, and project-specific settings utilized by the MSBuild engine. To open or compile these files, developers rely on Microsoft Visual Studio. However, this creates strict dependencies. .vcxproj files are tied to the Windows ecosystem and are not inherently cross-platform. They are also useless without the accompanying source code files like cpp and h. Because they can become bloated with complex configuration tags, they are often difficult to read manually. Developers frequently need to transition .vcxproj configurations into cross-platform build systems like CMake to compile software on Linux or macOS. While extracting the plain text or saving it as standard XML or TXT is possible, converting the actual build logic requires specialized developer tools. This file format is difficult to convert automatically because it contains highly specific MSBuild instructions rather than standalone media or document data. Standard online converters fail because they cannot process or translate Microsoft's proprietary compiler logic. Despite this, convert.guru is the ideal pragmatic workaround. Just drag and drop your .vcxproj file to identify the format, inspect the internal XML structure, and extract the raw text or convert it to basic text-based formats when possible.
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 Microsoft Visual Studio or similar software from the "C++ Project Build 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 Microsoft Visual Studio or another comparable tool in the "C++ Project Build 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.