VSPF Converter

Extract text from Performance filter files (VSPF)


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

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

Convert VSPF to another file type

To convert VSPF filters to another format, you need Microsoft Visual Studio or other Developer software.

Convert a file to VSPF

To convert other file formats to the "Profiler Settings File" file type, you need software like Microsoft Visual Studio or a similar tool.


About VSPF files

The .VSPF file is a Visual Studio Performance Filter file used to manage profiling parameters. Developers use these files to isolate specific threads, processes, or time ranges when diagnosing software bottlenecks. These files are opened and managed natively by Microsoft Visual Studio. Users typically want to convert or extract data from .VSPF files to share profiling parameters with team members who do not have Visual Studio installed. The major disadvantage of this format is that it is strictly proprietary and heavily dependent on the Microsoft ecosystem. Furthermore, .VSPF files do not contain actual performance data - they only hold the filtering rules applied to larger VSP or VSPX data files. Because it is a configuration file, standard conversion targets like PDF or DOCX are completely irrelevant. Instead, users should target plain text formats like TXT or XML to document the filter logic. This is a closed, proprietary format that standard online converters fail to process because they lack the specific parsing logic required for developer configuration files. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data.

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


FAQ

If you want to convert VSPF 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 "Performance Profiling Filter Settings" 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 VSPF, try Microsoft Visual Studio or another comparable tool in the "Performance Profiling Filter Settings" category.



The VSPF 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 VSPF converter.