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Describe the bug

Upgrading my .NET 8 Blazor WebAssembly application to .NET 9 lead to frontend rendering issues. In my specific case, I'm using a type derived from Ardalis.SmartEnum to display certain information. The SmartEnum class by Ardalis uses a recursive type where it references the derived class itself as a type parameter.

The result of this behavior is a completely defective rendering of the respective page. The console states the following error:

Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.WebAssembly.Rendering.WebAssemblyRenderer[100]
      Unhandled exception rendering component: Could not resolve field token 0x04000001, due to: Could not set up parent class, due to: Recursive type definition detected Ardalis.SmartEnum.SmartEnum`1 assembly:Ardalis.SmartEnum.dll type:SmartEnum`1 member:(null) assembly:Demo.dll type:TestEnum member:(null)
System.BadImageFormatException: Could not resolve field token 0x04000001, due to: Could not set up parent class, due to: Recursive type definition detected Ardalis.SmartEnum.SmartEnum`1 assembly:Ardalis.SmartEnum.dll type:SmartEnum`1 member:(null) assembly:Demo.dll type:TestEnum member:(null)
File name: 'Demo'
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.ComponentBase.<.ctor>b__7_0(RenderTreeBuilder builder)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.Rendering.ComponentState.RenderIntoBatch(RenderBatchBuilder batchBuilder, RenderFragment renderFragment, Exception& renderFragmentException)

Expected Behavior

Rendering of the page succeeds as with .NET 8.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Create a Blazor WebAssembly Standalone App (using .NET 9 PWA with example pages)
2. Include a reference to Ardalis.SmartEnum via NuGet

<PackageReference Include="Ardalis.SmartEnum" Version="8.1.0" />

3. Create a new class derived from SmartEnum

using Ardalis.SmartEnum;

public class TestEnum(string name, int value) : SmartEnum<TestEnum>(name, value)
{
    public static readonly TestEnum Default = new(nameof(Default), 0);
}

4. Append the following code to the Home.razor example page

@if (Test == TestEnum.Default)
{
    <p>Value of test enum is default</p>
}

@code {
    public TestEnum Test => TestEnum.Default;
}

6. Build and start the application, which will result in a rending exception on load

Exceptions (if any)

System.BadImageFormatException

.NET Version

9.0

Anything else?

Issue at Ardalis.SmartEnum: ardalis/SmartEnum#556