[BUG] Popup doesn't work with hot reload

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Current Behavior

Popup xaml changes aren’t reflected with hot reload. I’m not sure if this was part of the original intended functionality, but it can be quite tedious to iterate on Popup design changes.

Expected Behavior

Popup xaml changes should ideally be reflected during runtime, just like other Views in .NET MAUI.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Open and run the solution in the project repository
2. Click the button to show a popup
3. Make changes in the popup’s xaml during runtime
4. Observe that your changes have not been reflected

Link to public reproduction project repository

https://github.com/mavispuford/PopupHotReloadNotWorking

Environment

- .NET MAUI CommunityToolkit: 1.2.0
- OS:
Edition	Windows 10 Enterprise
Version	20H2
OS build	19042.1889
Experience	Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.4180.0
- .NET MAUI: 6.0.486

Anything else?

I’ve also reproduced this bug in Android. I haven’t tested platforms outside of Windows/Android.

[drasticactions]

@mavispuford IHotReloadabieView has nothing to do with XAML Hot Reload, it has to do with Comet. Implementing it won’t do anything for XAML Hot Reload.

@pictos For XAML Hot Reload to work, you need to implement IVisualTreeElement, https://github.com/dotnet/maui/blob/main/src/Core/src/Core/IVisualTreeElement.cs

Most base MAUI controls (Apart from ListView) implement this out of the box. XAML Hot Reload checks if the control implements this and uses it to then go through the children. If your control doesn’t implement this, it will not show up in the Live Visual Tree, and will then not be tracked at all for XAML Hot Reload.

[drasticactions]

Also, I would leave an issue in the MAUI repo about docs for this, since none of that is obvious unless you’re me, lol.