Apply BitVirtualize improvements (#13207)

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closes #13207

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• New Features

  • Added configurable accessibility roles, busy states, keyboard navigation, and RTL support.
  • Added header, footer, loading, and empty-state templates.
  • Added customizable classes and styles for virtualized content.
  • Added smooth scrolling, scroll-by controls, edge alignment, and improved reversed/chat layouts.
  • Improved support for dynamic item sizes, sticky content, data updates, and large lists.

• Documentation

  • Expanded examples and guidance covering accessibility, templates, styling, scrolling, RTL, and chat scenarios.

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Walkthrough

BitVirtualize is reworked with real-to-virtual scrolling, dynamic item measurement, viewport preservation, provider handling, accessibility options, templates, styling, browser synchronization, expanded tests, and new demonstrations.

Changes

BitVirtualize core

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Virtualization core and public API src/BlazorUI/Bit.BlazorUI.Extras/Components/Virtualize/BitVirtualize.razor.cs	Adds real-space coordinate mapping, dynamic measurement alignment, keyed viewport preservation, provider loading state, edge tracking, AlignToEnd, styling parameters, and ScrollByAsync.
Rendering, browser interop, and layout src/BlazorUI/Bit.BlazorUI.Extras/Components/Virtualize/*	Adds configurable templates, roles, classes, styles, dynamic browser synchronization, smooth scrolling, RTL handling, and logical CSS positioning.
Component behavior validation src/BlazorUI/Tests/Bit.BlazorUI.Tests/Components/Extras/Virtualize/BitVirtualizeTests.cs	Adds coverage for scrolling, accessibility, dynamic sizing, providers, reversed mode, sticky content, data changes, disposal, and prefix-sum calculations.
Documentation and usage examples src/BlazorUI/Demo/Client/Bit.BlazorUI.Demo.Client.Core/Pages/Components/Extras/Virtualize/*	Documents the expanded API and adds examples for scrolling, templates, keyed items, chat alignment, styling, accessibility, and RTL layouts.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant BitVirtualize
  participant VirtualizeInstance
  participant ItemsProvider
  User->>BitVirtualize: scroll or invoke scroll API
  BitVirtualize->>VirtualizeInstance: update virtual offset
  VirtualizeInstance->>BitVirtualize: report visible range
  BitVirtualize->>ItemsProvider: request visible window
  ItemsProvider-->>BitVirtualize: return items and count
  BitVirtualize->>VirtualizeInstance: synchronize measurements and layout

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0e533

The remaining issues can misreport demo state, retain obsolete observed elements, and leave dynamically sized lists at the wrong scroll anchor. The fixes are localized and should be addressed before or shortly after merge.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 12.63% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 190 functions across 6 files. (4 skipped:…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: applying improvements to BitVirtualize. It is concise and directly related to the implementation, demos, and tests in the pull request.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes implement the coding objectives in issue #13207. BitVirtualize adds scrolling, dynamic sizing, alignment, accessibility, templates, styling, RTL, provider, and data-change features. The …
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changed files are limited to BitVirtualize implementation, JavaScript interop, component styles, demo examples and descriptions, demo styles, and related automated tests. These changes support t…

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Docstring coverage is 12.63% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 190 functions across 6 files. (4 skipped: 4 unsupported.)

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In `@src/BlazorUI/Bit.BlazorUI.Extras/Components/Virtualize/BitVirtualize.ts`:
- Around line 349-352: Update the node replacement logic in _syncMeasurements to
retrieve and unobserve the existing node for the same index before overwriting
_observed with the new node. Keep the current reported-state reset and
observation of the replacement node unchanged.
- Line 208: Update the BitVirtualize smooth-scrolling flow around adjustScroll
and _armSmoothEnd to accumulate signed anchor corrections received while
_smoothScrolling is true, rather than dropping them. After the smooth-scroll
timer expires and _smoothScrolling is cleared, apply the accumulated correction
once, then reset the pending total; preserve existing early-return behavior for
disposed instances and zero deltas.

In
`@src/BlazorUI/Demo/Client/Bit.BlazorUI.Demo.Client.Core/Pages/Components/Extras/Virtualize/BitVirtualizeDemo.razor`:
- Line 306: Update both templates containing the list-header expression to use
the three-state condition: show “Loading older messages...” only when
loadingChatHistory is true, show an empty label when history remains but
loadingChatHistory is false, and show “This is the beginning of the
conversation” only when chatHistoryRemaining is zero.
- Line 142: Update the visible-range labels and displayed source associated with
BitVirtualizeDemo to represent the range as [Start, End), making clear that End
is exclusive rather than visible. Apply the change to both labels in the demo
and its source display, while preserving the existing Start and End values.

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• src/BlazorUI/Bit.BlazorUI.Extras/Components/Virtualize/BitVirtualize.razor
• src/BlazorUI/Bit.BlazorUI.Extras/Components/Virtualize/BitVirtualize.razor.cs
• src/BlazorUI/Bit.BlazorUI.Extras/Components/Virtualize/BitVirtualize.scss
• src/BlazorUI/Bit.BlazorUI.Extras/Components/Virtualize/BitVirtualize.ts
• src/BlazorUI/Bit.BlazorUI.Extras/Components/Virtualize/BitVirtualizeClassStyles.cs
• src/BlazorUI/Bit.BlazorUI.Extras/Components/Virtualize/BitVirtualizeJsRuntimeExtensions.cs
• src/BlazorUI/Demo/Client/Bit.BlazorUI.Demo.Client.Core/Pages/Components/Extras/Virtualize/BitVirtualizeDemo.razor
• src/BlazorUI/Demo/Client/Bit.BlazorUI.Demo.Client.Core/Pages/Components/Extras/Virtualize/BitVirtualizeDemo.razor.cs
• src/BlazorUI/Demo/Client/Bit.BlazorUI.Demo.Client.Core/Pages/Components/Extras/Virtualize/BitVirtualizeDemo.razor.scss
• src/BlazorUI/Tests/Bit.BlazorUI.Tests/Components/Extras/Virtualize/BitVirtualizeTests.cs

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