Credentials not valid error when Azure DevOps PAT expires in Visual Studio

When a Personal Access Token (PAT) used by Visual Studio to authenticate with Azure DevOps expires, the IDE shows a credentials‑not‑valid prompt and requires manual renewal.

The goal is to understand whether Visual Studio can be configured to automatically handle PAT expiration through the Azure DevOps SDK or Windows Credential Manager without user intervention.

Current documentation notes that no automated fallback or silent refresh mechanism is provided, but it is unclear if any SDK callbacks, registry settings, or credential‑manager flags can trigger a token refresh.

• Is there a supported configuration or SDK option that enables automatic PAT renewal in Visual Studio 2022?
• Does the Azure DevOps SDK expose an expiration event or callback that Visual Studio could handle to refresh the token silently?
• Are any registry keys, environment variables, or credential‑manager attributes known to initiate silent token renewal for Azure DevOps connections?