[WinUI] Cannot invalidate measure and arrange for a ContentView

[marchev-prgs]

Description

Please see project in repo. I have a custom class that inherits from ContentView, called CustomContentView. I have a Max property in it, and when the property changes, some custom logic should kick in that will eventually affect the desired size of the custom view, and so it should get re-arranged. This is why I invoke InvalidateMeasure() in the Max property changed. However nothing happens after that, the content view is not invalidated and there is no MeasureOverride and ArrangeOverride after.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Download the repo from the link (https://github.com/telerik/ms-samples/tree/main/Maui/CannotInvalidateContentViewInWinUI)
2. Go to the Maui/CannotInvalidateContentViewInWinUI folder
3. Run the app in WinUI
4. Clear the Output window
5. Click the "change max" button

Expected Behavior:
The measure and arrange of the custom content view should be invalidated and the MeasureOverride and ArrangeOverride methods should get invoked, so we should see information about this in the Output window.

Actual Behavior:
Nothing happens, MeasureOverride and ArrangeOverride are not invoked. The only thing in the output is the notification for the Max property change:
"::: CustomContentView OnMaxChanged"

Link to public reproduction project repository

https://github.com/telerik/ms-samples/tree/main/Maui/CannotInvalidateContentViewInWinUI

Version with bug

8.0.0-preview.7.8842

Is this a regression from previous behavior?

Not sure, did not test other versions

Last version that worked well

Unknown/Other

Affected platforms

Windows

Affected platform versions

No response

Did you find any workaround?

@PureWeen suggested to use
(this.Parent as IView)?.InvalidateMeasure();
(this.Parent as IView)?.InvalidateArrange();

This helps a lot and effectively causes MeasureOverride and ArrangeOverride, but I suspect it has some limitations, for example when the custom view is in the ControlTemplate of another ContentView, and perhaps when native embedding is used and the custom view doesn't have a Parent.

Relevant log output

No response

[marchev-prgs]

May be related to this issue: #7613

[XamlTest]

Verified this on Visual Studio Enterprise 17.8.0 Preview 2.0. Repro on Windows 11(8.0.0-rc.1), not repro on Android 13.0-API33 and iOS 16.4 with below Project:
17367.zip

[ghost]

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