Measuring controls created at runtime in WPF

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Answer 1

Solved it!

The issue was in my XAML. At the highest level of my label's template there was a parent canvas that had no height or width field. Since this did not have to modify its size for its children it was constantly set to 0,0. By removing it and replacing the root node with a border, which must resize to fit its children, the height and width fields are updated and propagated back to my code on Measure() calls.