VSCT Converter

Extract text from Visual Studio command tables (VSCT)


Drop or upload your .VSCT file
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How to extract text from your VSCT file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your VSCT file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert VSCT to another file type

To convert VSCT command tables to another format, you need Microsoft Visual Studio or other Developer software.

Convert a file to VSCT

To convert other file formats to the "Command Table Configuration" file type, you need software like Microsoft Visual Studio or a similar tool.


About VSCT files

The .vsct (Visual Studio Command Table) file is an XML-based configuration format used to declare commands, menus, toolbars, and keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Visual Studio extensions (VSPackages). Developers use these files to integrate their custom tools directly into the Visual Studio IDE user interface. While structurally just plain text XML, the .vsct format uses a highly specific and complex Microsoft schema. The main disadvantage is that it is completely useless outside of the Visual Studio extension development ecosystem. Standard text editors can open the file, but they lack the context and schema validation required to safely edit it without breaking the extension compilation. Furthermore, users who do not have the Visual Studio SDK installed cannot compile these files into the required binary .cto (Command Table Output) format. If you need to share or review the command structure outside of an IDE, converting the file to standard XML or TXT is recommended. Because .vsct files rely heavily on the internal Microsoft SDK ecosystem, generic online converters fail to process them into functional binaries.

Convert.Guru analyzes your VSCT file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.


FAQ

If you want to convert VSCT file to JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, C, CS, PHP, RB, GO, RS or SWIFT, you can use Microsoft Visual Studio or similar software from the "Visual Studio Extension 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 VSCT, try Microsoft Visual Studio or another comparable tool in the "Visual Studio Extension Configuration" category.



The VSCT 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 VSCT converter.