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The latest edition of Scott Hanselman 's Hanselminutes podcast features yours truly. We talked about Solver Foundation, numerical optimization, and good old-fashioned code optimization. Scott's a great guy and doing the podcast was a lot of fun. Those of you new to Solver Foundation (or this blog...

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Here is my as-promised "part 2" to my traveling salesman sample . My goal is not to try and do any "production level" modeling, but instead "point the way" by highlighting different aspects of Solver Foundation's architecture. This time I want to talk about directives , plug-in solvers , and model reusability...

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I am pleased to announce that Solver Foundation v1.2 is live on solverfoundation.com ! Our goal in 1.2 was to make a few key improvements to address feedback that we have received from partners and customers. If you have feedback, questions, suggestions…please post it here, or on our MSDN forum . Positive...

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Microsoft Solver Foundation version 1.1 has been released and the Express version can be downloaded for free here . 1.1 is a big deal because of the introduction of our solver plug-in model. This allows new or existing 3rd party solvers to interface with Solver Foundation Services (SFS) directly - meaning...

Pascal Belaud of Microsoft France recently used Microsoft Solver Foundation to schedule the big Microsoft Tech Days '09 conference in sunny Paris, France. The conference has over 16,000 attendees, with hundreds of presentations involving hundreds of speakers and rooms - quite a challenge, but Pascal...

I'm pleased to announce the availability of the first version of Microsoft Solver Foundation ! Simply put, Solver Foundation is a set of modeling tools and solvers to help you make smart decisions when confronted with complex requirements and priorities. A huge range of business and research problems...

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