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...