Description

This article states that negative spacing is allowed on the HorizontalStackLayout control, however, many times this will (randomly) crash Visual Studio's debugger.

Here is my code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> 
<ContentPage xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/dotnet/2021/maui"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"              
	x:Class="GinRummyMAUI.MainPage">
<StackLayout>          
	<HorizontalStackLayout
		x:Name="humanCardLayout"             
		HorizontalOptions="CenterAndExpand"             
		Spacing="-5">              
	
	<Image                 
		x:Name="Card1"                  
		Source="back_purple.png"/>              

	<Image                 
		x:Name="Card2"                  
		Source="back_purple.png"/>           

	</HorizontalStackLayout>      
</StackLayout>  
</ContentPage>

• Having just one image control the code works fine.
• Adding the second image control (or more than 2) causes Visual Studio to crash.
• When running without debugging, the MAUI application crashes to the desktop and shows a fatal exception in XAML DLL.

Faulting application name: GinRummyMAUI.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x65410000
Faulting module name: Microsoft.ui.xaml.dll, version: 3.1.3.0, time stamp: 0xea4b25b7
Exception code: 0xc000027b
Fault offset: 0x00000000007dc2aa
Faulting process id: 0x0x4224
Faulting application start time: 0x0x1DA3288F559DEEC
Faulting application path: C:\Users\syste\OneDrive\Desktop\Development\GinRummy\GinRummyMAUI\bin\Debug\net8.0-windows10.0.19041.0\win10-x64\AppX\GinRummyMAUI.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.3_3000.934.1904.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\Microsoft.ui.xaml.dll
Report Id: e84bb758-64ad-49bb-be52-99b0debad0b2
Faulting package full name: com.companyname.ginrummymaui_1.0.0.1_x64__9zz4h110yvjzm
Faulting package-relative application ID: App

Issue was also confirmed on this post.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a MAUI application
2. Add the code above to the main page.

Link to public reproduction project repository

https://github.com/JonesWebConsulting/HorizontalStackLayout_MS_Issue_19513.git

Version with bug

8.0.3

Is this a regression from previous behavior?

Not sure, did not test other versions

Last version that worked well

Unknown/Other

Affected platforms

I was not able test on other platforms

Affected platform versions

Windows 11 Home 22H2

Did you find any workaround?

Removing the negative value from spacing fixes the issue, but then does not provide the desired spacing.

Relevant log output

GinRummyMAUI.dll!GinRummyMAUI.WinUI.App.InitializeComponent.AnonymousMethod__3_1(object sender, Microsoft.UI.Xaml.UnhandledExceptionEventArgs e) Line 68 C#