Start Data API Builder

A Visual Studio Code extension that adds a quick way to start Data API Builder directly from dab-config.json.

Features

• Adds a right-click context menu for files named dab-config.json.
• Automatically opens a new terminal and runs dab start.

Requirements

• Ensure that dab is installed: dotnet tool install microsoft.dataapibuilder -g

Known Issues

• Only files named exactly dab-config.json will show the context menu option.
• The terminal assumes dab is available globally in your environment.

Release Notes

1.2.2 - 2026-03-14

Changed

• Version bump for coordinated release
• SQL Server TCP/IP connectivity improvements

0.2.0 - 2026-01-13

Added

• Auto-dismiss dialogs after 5 seconds for better UX (error, info, warning messages)
• Data types in field descriptions for tables and views (e.g., "ActorId (int)")
• Parameter descriptions with types for stored procedures
• Field descriptions for stored procedure result columns
• Required --fields.primary-key parameter for all table/view fields

Fixed

• Stored procedure parameter handling (removed incorrect --source.params usage)
• Entity names now strip brackets to avoid CLI errors
• Stored procedures default to GET method instead of POST
• Async filtering bug preventing duplicate stored procedure detection
• Removed incorrect --map usage for tables and views
• Relationship field parsing to use source.fields/target.fields from config JSON
• Bidirectional relationship filtering to properly exclude already-added relationships
• Undefined field array handling that caused "Cannot read properties of undefined" errors

Changed

• Enhanced SQL queries to retrieve column data types via TYPE_NAME()
• Improved relationship duplicate detection to check both forward and reverse relationships

0.1.0

• Initial release: Context menu and terminal support for starting DAB.