CoPilot in Visual Studio missing features from VSCode?

[Oninaig]

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Using CoPilot in VSCode, I can ask in-line questions and move those questions to the chat window to save the history. I cannot do this in the Visual Studio extension as once you close the in-line chat window, that response is gone. The logs even say so:

[Conversations Information] [Conversations] A no-op writer is being created, history won't be persisted.
[Conversations Information] [Conversations] An in-memory history repository instance have been created, history won't be persisted.
[Conversations Information] [Conversations] Persistence path is not specified to conversation xyz. History won't be persisted.

In VSCode, I can delete the response that Copilot gives me in the chat window. In Visual Studio, I cannot delete any responses in the Copilot Chat window and I am forced to create a new "thread" if I want to discard only part of a response, which forces me to create an entirely new conversation.

Am I missing a setting somewhere that would enable these features in Visual Studio? Seems strange to exclude them.

[ayim]

Hi, I recommend using the "Suggest a Feature" button in Visual Studio to report this.
CC: @rheapatel23

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Aaron Yim
Product Manager for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio
aayim@microsoft.com

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