Unable to initialize extension

[ahmednrana]

The extension crashes

Repro steps

1. I added certain connections. Long time ago
2. I installed the extension again and always get a pop up error
3. The following connections have invalid drivers. Then the extension is stuck and there is not way to add / remove a connection or even see a connection.
4. See attached
5. I tried re installing vscode but no luck

Expected Behavior

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Actual Behavior

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Environment

• DBCode version: 1.28.0
• VS Code (or fork) version: vscodium
• OS: win11
• Database: sql server and others
• Connection: (direct/SSH/SSL): direct

Error Meesages (if applicable)

The following connections have invalid drivers. Then the extension is stuck and there is not way to add / remove a connection or even see a connection.

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Logs

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2026-02-17 10:11:25.621 [info] DBCode starting...
2026-02-17 10:11:25.622 [info] DBCode started
2026-02-17 10:11:25.622 [info] Auth: No stored license found
2026-02-17 10:11:25.622 [info] AI provider: DBCode AI
2026-02-17 10:11:25.637 [info] History: Manager initialized successfully
2026-02-17 10:11:25.927 [info] LS: Initialized with storage path: c:\Users\ranaa\AppData\Roaming\VSCodium\User\globalStorage\dbcode.dbcode
2026-02-17 10:11:25.930 [info] LS: Started
2026-02-17 10:12:50.309 [info] DBCode starting...
2026-02-17 10:12:50.354 [info] DBCode started
2026-02-17 10:12:50.402 [info] Auth: No stored license found
2026-02-17 10:12:50.408 [info] AI provider: DBCode AI
2026-02-17 10:12:50.426 [info] History: Manager initialized successfully
2026-02-17 10:12:50.685 [info] LS: Initialized with storage path: c:\Users\ranaa\AppData\Roaming\VSCodium\User\globalStorage\dbcode.dbcode
2026-02-17 10:12:50.689 [info] LS: Started
2026-02-17 10:18:24.804 [info] DBCode starting...
2026-02-17 10:18:25.027 [info] DBCode started
2026-02-17 10:18:25.061 [info] Auth: No stored license found
2026-02-17 10:18:25.077 [info] AI provider: DBCode AI
2026-02-17 10:18:25.105 [info] History: Manager initialized successfully
2026-02-17 10:18:25.478 [info] LS: Initialized with storage path: c:\Users\ranaa\AppData\Roaming\VSCodium\User\globalStorage\dbcode.dbcode
2026-02-17 10:18:25.481 [info] LS: Started

[mikeburgh]

The issue is that your connections have sqlserver as the driver, but the extension uses mssql for SQL Server connections. You can fix this by editing your settings directly:

1. Open the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P)
2. Search for "Preferences: Open User Settings (JSON)"
3. Find the dbcode.connections section
4. For each connection, change "driver": "sqlserver" to "driver": "mssql"
5. Save and restart the extesion/vscode

That should clear the error and let everything load normally.

Looking into trying to see how they could have been added wrong, always been mssql as the driver name.

[mikeburgh]

I added some code around import to do more mapping of types that might appear in imported connections, that's the only place I could find that could lead to driver names not matching what the system uses, this has been released in 1.28.2