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Archive for June 15th, 2016

How to overcome “Stuck while installing Visual Studio 2015 (Update for Microsoft Windows (KB2999226))” via – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/15

Visual Studio 2015 install stuck on

Visual Studio 2015 install stuck on “acquiring” KB2999226

I had exactly the same when installing Visual Studio 2015 on a Windows 7 x64 system: stuck on “Acquiring” the “Update for Microsoft Windows (KB2999226)”.

So as mentioned in the StackOverflow answers for the below question, I manually downloaded “Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2999226)” which you can get directly at https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/1/5/11565A9A-EA09-4F0A-A57E-520D5D138140/Windows6.1-KB2999226-x64.msu.

Be sure to quit both the Visual Studio 2015 installation as well as any (“automagically interfering” background Windows Updates), as otherwise you get this error:

--------------------------- Windows Update Standalone Installer --------------------------- Only one instance of wusa.exe is allowed to run. --------------------------- OK ---------------------------

---------------------------
Windows Update Standalone Installer
---------------------------
Only one instance of wusa.exe is allowed to run.
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------

If you still get that error, then

  • try to stop/start the wuauserv service: usually it gets rid of the error.
  • When it still occurs, try a clean boot, then re-apply the KB.

Applying the KB can take a long while, even on fast hardware.

–jeroen

Source: Stuck while installing Visual Studio 2015 (Update for Microsoft Windows (KB2999226)) – Stack Overflow

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How to: Set a Thread Name in Native Code

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/15

This is what the Delphi [WayBack] System.Classes.TThread.NameThreadForDebugging (introduced in Delphi 2010) is based on:

//
// Usage: SetThreadName (-1, "MainThread");
//
#include <windows.h>
const DWORD MS_VC_EXCEPTION=0x406D1388;

#pragma pack(push,8)
typedef struct tagTHREADNAME_INFO
{
   DWORD dwType; // Must be 0x1000.
   LPCSTR szName; // Pointer to name (in user addr space).
   DWORD dwThreadID; // Thread ID (-1=caller thread).
   DWORD dwFlags; // Reserved for future use, must be zero.
} THREADNAME_INFO;
#pragma pack(pop)

void SetThreadName( DWORD dwThreadID, char* threadName)
{
   THREADNAME_INFO info;
   info.dwType = 0x1000;
   info.szName = threadName;
   info.dwThreadID = dwThreadID;
   info.dwFlags = 0;

   __try
   {
      RaiseException( MS_VC_EXCEPTION, 0, sizeof(info)/sizeof(ULONG_PTR), (ULONG_PTR*)&info );
   }
   __except(EXCEPTION_EXECUTE_HANDLER)
   {
   }
}

Related:

For Delphi 2009 and 2007: It is implemented in the SetThreadName method of the IdGlobal unit.

–jeroen

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