MAUI Exception: A cycle occured while laying out GUI

[jimcbell]

Chapter: 19
Page Number: 724
Section Title: Implementing the Model-View-ViewModel pattern
Problem to fix:
I am running the MAUI app in debug mode with the service for categories running without debug. This is after the part where we add the categories page in to retrieve them from the service and display them in a carousel. I am getting an unhandled exception in the MAUI app:
"A cycle occurred while laying out GUI"

I cloned this repo, added the Chapter02 entity context project into the solution, and ran the project the same way with the files all from the repo, and I get the same error. Is this reproducible by anyone else?

I have been trying to figure this out for sometime, but it looks like others had similar issues and it was patched with a version of MAUI...

I am running VS Community 2022 v17.8.5