Wpf controls size is coming small/blurry in wpf ViewBox - visual-studio-2010

I have an usercontrol in wpf window. In usercontrol, I have put all the controls inside the viewbox so that if the user resize the window it does not effect the scaling of the usercontrol.
<Viewbox >
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition/>
<ColumnDefinition/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
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</Grid>
</Viewbox>
In the first image, when the window is not maximized the usercontrols controls are coming as below i.e. small and blurry. Size of the controls are not constant.
if the user maximized the window, the usercontrol is coming fine as below:
Kindly suggest how to solve this issue?
Thanks

Check this out:
TextBlock inside a Viewbox - strange rendering
And try playing with TextOptions.TextFormattingMode values on Viewbox (assuming the controls n the screenshot are rendered as text with fonts, not bitmapimages.

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I'm using ColumnSpan="2" so that I have a width of exactly one column after using Scale="0.5", but this might already be a wrong approach and I would definitely prefer to not do it this way. Also tried changing the HeightRequest to 120 after the scaling happens, but this will also shorten the height of MyCustomView.
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Sample Repository:
https://github.com/Zure1/ScaleSample/
I did some test and can't a way to fill a Grid Cell with a scaled down View.
You can open a free Xamarin support case here: supportforXamarin to get more help and find if there is any solution to it.
Instead of use a scaled down View, I use a View with grid layout to achieve the similar requirement as yours and I upload a sample(based on you) here: resizeView-xamarin.forms. You can have a look at it and maybe you can find some idea from it. Hope it make sense to you.

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the image should be show as apparently nothing is wrong with your code. It might be that image color and opened web page color is same that is why image might not be visible. or some issue with image path or build action of the image.
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NavigationFailed="webView_NavigationFailed"
Navigated="webView_Navigated"
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