Retirement of Azure Data Studio

Azure Data Studio will be retired in February 2026. Therefore, this extension will not be developed further. Similar functionality for Visual Studio Code exists in extensions like: ColorTabs.

TabPainter for Azure Data Studio

Accidentally running a query on the wrong database server can have serious consequences. This extension provides an immediate visual indicator of which server you're connected to by coloring your editor interface. Never accidentally run a query on the wrong server again!

Features

• Automatically colors editor components based on the active database connection
• Customizable color schemes for different server names with full regex support
• Visual safeguard to easily distinguish between production and development environments
• Helps prevent running queries on unintended servers

Extension Settings

Color Mapping Configuration

The main configuration is done through tabPainter.mapping, which defines the color rules:

{
  "tabPainter.mapping": [
    {
      "regex": "production.*", 
      "color": "#FF0000"
    },
    {
      "regex": "localhost",
      "color": "#00FF00"
    }
  ]
}

The "regex" entry supports all Javascript regex expressions and matches on the server connected in the active tab.

Other Settings

Setting	Description	Default	Type
colorTabs.ignoreCase	Ignore case when matching regex patterns	true	boolean
colorTabs.statusBarBackground	Color the status bar background	true	boolean
colorTabs.tabBorder	Color the tab borders	true	boolean
colorTabs.titleBackground	Color the title background	false	boolean
colorTabs.activityBarBackground	Color the activity bar background	false	boolean
colorTabs.titleLabel	Show colored title label	false	boolean
colorTabs.tabBackground	Color the tab background	false	boolean

Changelog

• [0.1.0]
  • Initial release

Credits

I took inspiration from the Visual Studio Code extension ColorTabs by Ore Poran.