Shadows overview sample in gallery crashes under Windows App SDK

[Arlodotexe]

Describe the bug

When running the gallery with the Wasdk head on the latest main commit, the 'Shadows overview' sample will crash the app:

Exception message:

Specified cast is not valid.

Stack trace:

   at WinRT.ExceptionHelpers.<ThrowExceptionForHR>g__Throw|38_0(Int32 hr)
   at ABI.Microsoft.UI.Xaml.IFrameworkElementOverridesMethods.MeasureOverride(IObjectReference _obj, Size availableSize)
   at Microsoft.UI.Xaml.FrameworkElement.MeasureOverride(Size availableSize)
   at Microsoft.UI.Xaml.FrameworkElement.Microsoft.UI.Xaml.IFrameworkElementOverrides.MeasureOverride(Size availableSize)
   at ABI.Microsoft.UI.Xaml.IFrameworkElementOverrides.Do_Abi_MeasureOverride_0(IntPtr thisPtr, Size availableSize, Size* result)

This behavior is not present when running the gallery under UWP.

Steps to reproduce

1. Clone the repo
2. Generate the gallery solution, include the Media component and the wasdk multitarget/head.
3. Build and deploy the wasdk gallery 
4. Navigate to the 'Shadows overview' sample page and observe crash.

Expected behavior

No crash

Screenshots

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Code Platform

• [ ] UWP
• [X] WinAppSDK / WinUI 3
• [ ] Web Assembly (WASM)
• [ ] Android
• [ ] iOS
• [ ] MacOS
• [ ] Linux / GTK

Windows Build Number

• [ ] Windows 10 1809 (Build 17763)
• [ ] Windows 10 1903 (Build 18362)
• [ ] Windows 10 1909 (Build 18363)
• [ ] Windows 10 2004 (Build 19041)
• [ ] Windows 10 20H2 (Build 19042)
• [ ] Windows 10 21H1 (Build 19043)
• [ ] Windows 10 21H2 (Build 19044)
• [ ] Windows 10 22H2 (Build 19045)
• [ ] Windows 11 21H2 (Build 22000)
• [ ] Other (specify)

Other Windows Build number

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App minimum and target SDK version

• [ ] Windows 10, version 1809 (Build 17763)
• [ ] Windows 10, version 1903 (Build 18362)
• [ ] Windows 10, version 1909 (Build 18363)
• [ ] Windows 10, version 2004 (Build 19041)
• [ ] Windows 10, version 2104 (Build 20348)
• [ ] Windows 11, version 22H2 (Build 22000)
• [ ] Other (specify)

Other SDK version

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Visual Studio Version

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Visual Studio Build Number

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[Arlodotexe]

This error only throws when AoT is enabled. Running without AoT works as expected:

Also worth noting that this document doesn't have any embedded samples in it. This means might be an issue with the MarkdownTextBlock being used by the gallery.

[Arlodotexe]

We're still using 7.1.2 for the Markdown renderer in the Gallery:

• tooling/ProjectHeads/App.Head.Uwp.Dependencies.props#L5
• tooling/ProjectHeads/App.Head.WinAppSdk.Dependencies.props#L5.

These will need to be updated to the latest version of MarkdownTextBlock in Labs.

[Arlodotexe]

Looking through the new Markdig-based Markdown control, I'm not seeing any obvious way to handle clicked links in the consuming application.

I see the library has an AutoLinkParser that takes an AutoLinkOptions.OpenInNewWindow, but AutoLink seems to be centered around detecting and making raw links clickable in the renderer. It's not clear where or how link clicks are handled from code-behind.

Looking at another UI project that uses Mardig, markdig.wpf, we find that their sample app is routing "hyperlink clicks" through FrameworkElement CommandBindings. Digging further, they've connected this binding through a Hyperlink object that is passed to a custom wpf-based LinkInlineRenderer.

We'll need to create a similar custom link renderer in the MarkdownTextBlock control offered in Labs before we can move forward with this ticket.