Solver Foundation provides an easy-to-use and flexible plug-in infrastructure as an addition to its already rich set of solvers. Users can choose their favorite plugin solvers to solve the model, and yet leverage all features provided in Solver Foundation...

Solver Foundation supports flexible data binding so that the algebraic model can be separated from the data source. In Solver Foundation, both parameters and decisions can be bound to data source. It makes writing and maintaining models really easy. ...

Deploy-to-C# is a new feature we shipped in Solver Foundation v2.0 Excel Add-in. The idea is to simplify the process of deploying an OML model written in the Add-in into a Visual Studio project that builds the same model using Solver Foundation Services...

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/fsharp/default.aspx The F# ODSL and SFS wrapper included in Solver Foundation v2.0 utilize the new feature, unit of measure, in F# to facilitate more robust modeling experience. In order to...

We are pleased to announce the release of Solver Foundation v2.0 . This is the fourth on-time commercial release for the product. The Express edition is available now at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/solverfoundation . The Standard Edition of Solver...

In Solver Foundation CTP release, we shipped an optimization domain specific language (ODSL) in F#, which embedded Solver Foundation simplex solver for solving linear programming models. In the upcoming version 2 release, we will ship an enhanced version...

Please check out www.solverfoundation.com for an immediate access to our Express edition. Standard edition will be ready through MSDN subscription in the following days. It's really exciting to see three releases in five months. - Lengning

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http://www.solverfoundation.com Official website of Solver Foundation.

Here is a post that describes a recent use case of Microsoft Solver Foundation in real world applications. http://blogs.msdn.com/pascal/archive/2009/01/13/l-agenda-des-techdays-2009-a-t-enti-rement-construit-avec-microsoft-solver-foundation.aspx ...

Alexander Stojanovic is the founder of Microsoft Solver Foundation . Please check out his blog at http://conceptualorigami.blogspot.com/ Min Wei is the principle engineer of Microsoft Solver Foundation. His blog is available at http://blogs.msdn.com...

This is the final post on the Sudoku puzzle generator. We have seen how to generate a Sudoku puzzle by using Microsoft Solver Foundation to repeatedly solve the Sudoku model with different board configurations. The data binding feature in Solver Foundation...

In our last post, we saw the model for completing a Sudoku board given a particular board configuration. In this post, we will show how to repeatedly use this model to generate a Sudoku puzzle. Let us first take a look at the main procedure of the...

Here is the link to the original post (thank Shahar for posting the trick). The trick to make arithmetics valid on Decision/Parameter indexes in OML is to declare the Sets on which the indexes are defined as Integers. Here is the OML model that illustrates...

Parameters in Solver Foundation Services (SFS) provide a convenient way of separating models from their input data. In the MSF-SFSProgrammingPrimer doc included in the release, we have the following example: Sample 4: Using Parameters for LINQ Data...

I will be posting a series of articles that illustrate how to use the recently released Microsoft Solver Foundation to solve various problems. Let us start with this fun problem: generating Sudoku puzzles. We will see how to model the problem in Solver...

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/solverfoundation Global competitiveness requires that companies adopt agile techniques for planning, scheduling, risk management, and strategic decision making. Modeling the decisions to be made and the constraints placed...