Visual studio intellisense only showing after calling the right module - vb.net

Been having this issue for a while now, tried to google it, but don't now really how to ask google this properly, so will try it here.
I made my own dll's, each containing different vb.net modules, each with different functions.
So for example I have a vb.net module called 'Helper', with the functions 'helper1', 'helper2', 'helper3'..
So I want to call it in a website like 'Helperdll.Helper.helper1()'.
Problem is that the intellisense already shows the functionames before I typed the modulename. So it's possible for me to call 'Helperdll.helper1(). And I want this to dissapear.
I already tried to add this just before the function. This hides indeed the functionname for the intellisense, but is not really what I'm looking for. :
'<System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsable(System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Advanced)>'
So my question: Isn't it possible to add a rule like this one above on top of the module (so not for every function seperatly) or fix something in the properties of the dll which will hide the functionnames until the right module has been called?

That is a feature of VB.NET's Modules, it's called Type Promotion. There is no way to deactivate this behaviour.
Check if you really need a Module or if a class with Shared members would serve the same purpose for you.
Just saw that there already is a question like this: VB.NET Module - Can I force the use of <Module_Name>.Public_Member_Name when accessing pub. Members?

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Cro Template as Object

The Scenario
I've been using templates in Cro (documented at https://cro.services/docs/reference/cro-webapp-template), and have enjoyed that there are subs in them.
I currently have a 'main' template, and some reports, let's say report1, report2, and report3.
Let's say that, from report3, I want to include an array of report1.
Now, let's say that the reports each have the following subs:
init: Some Javascript initialisation code (that should only be included once, no matter how many instances of the report are used)
HTML: Some HTML code that should be included for each instance of the report (with a few parameters to differentiate it, but that, due to the restriction of the Javascript framework, may not contain any <script> or <style> tags
data: A snippet of Javascript that again has to be repeated for each time the report is included
Currently I have each of the above in a separate sub in the template.
The Problem
Redeclaration of symbol '&__TEMPLATE_SUB__report-initial'.
The Question
While I can pass a report name (eg. "report1") to the main template, what I'm lacking is a way to have the main template call the subs on the report name that has been passed in, since there may be multiple reports involved.
Ideas I've tried
What would be ideal is if I could somehow create a "report" class that inherits from the template, and pass instances of the template class into the main report, and then call the subs as methods on the report class. However, I've been unable to figure out a way to do this.
I can see three likely options here:
My difficulty may be that I'm not thinking "The Cro Way". If there's a better way to achieve what I'm trying to do, please let me know
There may be a way to achieve what I want, and I've just been unable to understand the documentation (or it may be missing)
While unlikely, it's possible that Cro hasn't been designed with this kind of possibility in mind.
Any help anyone can provide would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Edit: I think a macro that can have multiple (named) "bodies" would solve the problem.
It looks like &__TEMPLATE_SUB__report1-initial is a global that is redeclared when you import report1 into report3. May I suggest to try and use template fragments instead of the whole template?
my initial response to your question is "please can you provide a minimal reproducible example of your code so that we can get a deeper view of the context and have something that we can experiment with"
my current understanding of what you need is "to use raku style classes & objects (with callbacks) in a Cro template setting" - and that the standard ways of doing this such as associative access to a nested topic variable are too limited
in itself, this is not necessarily a weakness of raku / Cro in that the power of a template slang needs to be limited to avoid potential security issues and, as with most template systems, is a bit more prosaic than a full blown coding language
my guess is that Cro template-parts which can chunk up web parts and steps in and out of the (real raku) root block can, depending on how you chunk things up, handle the report data structure that you describe - have you tried this?
if this is still not tenable, there are a couple of ways to expand the options such as dependency injection and route handlers

How to list the exposed members of a package/dir-like method in Elm?

I have been searching the official docs and existing questions and could not find any information on this - in Elm, how it would be possible to see the members/methods/variables that belong to or are exposed by a package in Elm, (such as the dir method in python), without having to dive into the source code each time?
What I want to do is get a simple list of what methods are exposed by an imported package. (So for a package like List, it should output reverse , all, any, map, etc.) I have attempted tab completion in elm repl and the elm extension available in VS code editor, and elm repl does not offer any methods such as help, doc, ?, dir, man, etc., so I have no idea where to even start. I'm wondering how everyone else does this other than pulling up the source code for each and every package they use.
I apologize for the newbie question and if I misread or have been missing anything, but I couldn't even find anything in the https://elmprogramming.com tutorial. Thanks in advance.
Nothing like this exists in Elm to do reflection over modules, unfortunately (as of 0.19.1, at least).
However, if you aren't looking to actually do this kind of thing at runtime, but rather as a convenient way of finding out for development, the elm packaging system enforces the requirement that all public functions are documented, so if you visit the package page, every public function and type will be documented there (obviously it can't enforce the content of the documentation, but at the very least it will be listed).

How to get Motherboard name in VB.net?

My program needs an upgrade and I was looking for the Motherboard name and Maker(Developer).
And here's the problem there is WMI what is offered almost everywhere, and it lines up with
Console.Writeline, what i want to do is to get the Label to show the same thing what i get with WMI.
The solution what was offered by Thorster Dittmar, did not work, I tried that at the beginning:
Cannot refer to an instance member of a class from within a shared method or shared member initializer without an explicit instance of the class.
It's a bit hard to understand your question, but what I read from it is:
You want to display information you get via WMI in a Label, but the output so far is on the Console?
Well, use the following steps:
Create a Windows Forms application
Place Label on form
Copy code that accesses WMI to Form_Load event handler
Instead of Console.WriteLine(xyz) do label1.Text = xyz
That should be it. If that doesn't answer your question, please edit your question so it becomes clearer what you want.

Change dwm colorization - Windows 7

I'm currently trying to write a program in VB.NET which fluidly changes the DWM window colorization colors in Windows 7.
I first tried to edit Registry values directly, but I had to restart the UXSMS service. This solution was unsatisfying, because of the toggle of the taskbar.
I'm now searching for a function in a DLL such as user32.dll or themecpl.dll which can reproduce the behaviour of control panel when setting the window color.
I'm now on IDA, searching for the adquate function (CColorCplPage::SetDwmColorizationColor seems good!). If anyone has one, please share it!
(If anyone need screens or code, please ask. Sorry for my poor English.)
Your first attempt failed because manually editing the Registry is never the correct way to change system settings. As you found out, lots of Windows components (and other applications!) read those configuration values once and cache them, preventing your changes from being propagated. Another problem (and you'd be surprised how often I see this) is applications that attempt to muck around in the Registry generally end up corrupting things.
Instead, you should call the documented API to change the settings. There's almost always a documented way of doing this, and if there isn't, well then you shouldn't be doing it.
This appears to be one of those cases. There's a documented DwmGetColorizationColor function, but there's no corresponding DwmSetColorizationColor function, as one might expect.
The reason is that the user is supposed to be the only one who can change their colorization settings, not other applications. You might promise not to abuse this, and to only make such changes at the user's explicit request, but not all applications can be trusted to do this. Lots of people would use it maliciously, so these functions have not been documented and exposed.
But as usual, if you press on, you can usually find an undocumented way of doing things. The problem with using undocumented functions is that there's no guarantee they'll work or continue to work. They've been intentionally left undocumented because they're liable to change on new versions of Windows. You should only use them at your own risk.
In this case, if you use a program like DumpBin to obtain a list of all the exported functions from the DWM DLL (dwmapi.dll), you'll see a number of undocumented exported functions.
The ones you're interested in are DwmGetColorizationParameters and DwmSetColorizationParameters. Both of these functions take a COLORIZATIONPARAMS structure as an argument that contains the values they need.
So, you need to reverse engineer these functions and obtain the appropriate definitions. Then, you can call the DwmGetColorizationParameters function, passing in a COLORIZATIONPARAMS structure to obtain the current configuration settings; modify the member of the structure that contains the current colorization color; and then pass that modified version of the structure to the DwmSetColorizationParameters function.
Did I mention that I don't recommend doing this?

Having trouble debugging class library plugin

I have a windows form application in which I'm attempting to utilize a plugin (class library). In the code I have it load the assembly from a dll file, which means I have not been able to debug. Furthermore I have not found out how to compile the library so I've had to use the debuged dll version for testing. I've run into a bug in which I create a new object and send that data through an interface to the plugin in an attempt to retrieve a blank slate group box from the plugin. However instead of reading the parameter as a new object i managed to step through the code once (don't ask me how, I don't know and I haven't been able to repeat it) and it appeared that the code was registering the parameter as "nothing" thus why I received a null reference error in the main program.
Is there a better way to debug this mechanism and find out where the problem is? Any ideas on what the problem could be. As I read over this is seems somewhat vague and I'm not sure how to describe it, but I'm willing to host a connect now meeting if anyone is willing to look at what is going on and I'm not making myself understood very well.
I'm not sure if I follow exactly what you're doing but I usually find that the best way to debug a class library is by in the solution for the class library I add a new project, either a WinForms one or a Console one, I then set this new project as the start up project and add a reference to the Class Library project (via the Project tab in the Add Reference dialog).
You'll then be able to call the methods in the class library from the other project and you can put breakpoints anywhere to see what's really going on easily.
Ok, so the problem was that any time you edit the class library you have to compile (and the only way I know how is debugging, I can't find a compile button and the publish button doesn't work and building doesn't appear to make a dll). But anyways you have to compile, transfer the file so you are reading the most recent one. If you edit the code during runtime it does NOT update the dll in use...which was my problem.