Microsoft Releases VS Code Update with Side-by-Side AI Chats and HTML Preview
Microsoft has released a new update for Visual Studio Code (version 1.134) that introduces side-by-side AI chats, a prompt timeline, in-chat search, and HTML file preview capabilities. These updates significantly improve the developer workflow when interacting with AI coding assistants, allowing for better organization of multiple AI conversations and seamless local file previewing. Developers can now drag chat histories into horizontal or vertical groups to compare AI outputs, search conversations using Ctrl+F, and set the integrated Simple Browser as the default editor to preview HTML files.
## BACKGROUND
Visual Studio Code features built-in support for AI chat agents to assist with coding tasks directly within the workspace. Additionally, it includes a bundled "Simple Browser" extension that allows developers to render web content and preview HTML files inside an iframe webview without switching to an external browser.