Add automatic field generation for @ref attributes in Blazor components

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Summary of the changes

Implements automatic field inference for @ref attributes, eliminating manual field declarations in @code blocks. Fields are now auto-generated with correct types: ElementReference for HTML elements, component type for components.

Before:

<MyComponent @ref="myComponent" />

@code {
    private MyComponent myComponent;  // Manual declaration required
    void DoSomething() => myComponent.ShowMessage();
}

After:

<MyComponent @ref="myComponent" />

@code {
    void DoSomething() => myComponent.ShowMessage();  // Field auto-generated
}

Changes

• Modified ComponentReferenceCaptureLoweringPass: Generates FieldDeclarationIntermediateNode for each @ref directive during compilation
• Type inference: Automatically determines field type from parent node (component type vs ElementReference)
• Duplicate prevention: Tracks generated fields and skips if field/property already exists
• Insertion logic: Places generated fields after design-time setup code, before method declarations

Known Issues

Critical: Field nodes are not appearing in generated IR despite correct insertion logic. The AddFieldDeclaration method follows the same pattern as ViewComponentTagHelperPass but fields don't materialize. Possible causes:

• Incorrect insertion index calculation
• Pass ordering issue (fields added then removed)
• Stale class node reference

Requires debugger access to inspect IR state across compilation stages.

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Original prompt

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This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>Enhancement: Blazor / Razor infer @ref definitions from razor language.</issue_title>
<issue_description>When defining a reference @ref to a html element or razor component you now need to define it double:

<Component @ref="myComponent">Hello Blazor!</Component>

@code {
    private Component myComponent;

    void DoSomething() => myComponent.ShowMessage();
}

You now need to define the type and name twice, both in the razor language and in de code block. Making refactoring / code maintenance more difficult when eg the Component is renamed. It would be a great improvement if the reference in the code block doesnt need to defined aswell. But that it's inferred from the razor language.

Same as for example in Wpf. There your can give a Name to a element and then it's available in the code-behind

So the final solution will be then be:

<Component @ref="myComponent">Hello Blazor!</Component>

@code {
    void DoSomething() => myComponent.ShowMessage();
}
```</issue_description>

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• Fixes Enhancement: Blazor / Razor infer @ref definitions from razor language. #7651

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