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Announcing Solver Foundation 2.0
I'm pleased to announce the release of Solver Foundation 2.0, available at solverfoundation.com....
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 10/08/2009
Solver Foundation 2.0 Preview: Second Order Conic Programming
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about one of our big features for Solver Foundation 2.0: stochastic...
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 10/02/2009
Using the Solver Foundation Interior Point Solver
I've had a few requests on this topic, so I thought I would give a simple example of how to write...
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 09/24/2009
Solver Foundation 2.0 Preview: F# ODSL
Lengning Liu has written a great post that highlights another exciting Solver Foundation 2.0 area: a...
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 09/14/2009
Nash equilibria and 4th down, continued
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Author: Nate Brixius Date: 09/12/2009
Dynamic programming, Nash equilibria, and going for it on 4th down
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Author: Nate Brixius Date: 09/08/2009
Solver Foundation 2.0 Preview: Simulation and Stochastic Programming
I'm back from ISMP and helping to put the finishing touches on Solver Foundation 2.0. In our first...
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 09/03/2009
Int'l Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Day 2
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Author: Nate Brixius Date: 08/27/2009
Int'l Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Day 1
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Author: Nate Brixius Date: 08/26/2009
Quadratic Assignment Problems: solution enumeration
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Author: Nate Brixius Date: 07/27/2009
Quadratic Assignment Problems: strong and weak branching
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Author: Nate Brixius Date: 07/19/2009
Quadratic assignment problems: branching
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Author: Nate Brixius Date: 07/12/2009
Solver Foundation LINQ to SQL example
Erwin, a modeling consultant and top Solver Foundation user, encountered some problems trying to do...
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 06/02/2009
Solver Foundation TSP Part II: Directives, Solver Plugins, Model Libraries
Here is my as-promised "part 2" to my traveling salesman sample. My goal is not to try and do any...
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 05/07/2009
Creating parameterized Solver Foundation models using LINQ to SQL
On the Solver Foundation MSDN forum there was a question about how to read model data from a DB and...
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 05/05/2009
Solving traveling salesman problems using Solver Foundation
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Author: Nate Brixius Date: 04/27/2009
Modeling a production planning problem using Solver Foundation
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Author: Nate Brixius Date: 04/24/2009
Solver Foundation at INFORMS Practice Conference
A few of us on the Solver Foundation team will be presenting at the INFORMS Practice Conference in...
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 04/22/2009
Solver Foundation 1.2 released!
I am pleased to announce that Solver Foundation v1.2 is live on solverfoundation.com! Our goal in...
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 04/18/2009
Ctrl+Tab works in Visual Studio, too.
I have been brushing up on keyboard shortcuts ever since I installed the Windows 7 beta on my...
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 04/02/2009
Resource constrained scheduling; OML tutorials
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Author: Nate Brixius Date: 03/31/2009
Simple matrix, vector, permutation utilities
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Author: Nate Brixius Date: 03/25/2009
Branch-and-bound algorithms for QAP
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Author: Nate Brixius Date: 03/23/2009
Project Scheduling and Solver Foundation: links and constraints
Yesterday I introduced a simple OML model for computing project schedules. The model has the...
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 03/06/2009
Project Scheduling using Solver Foundation
I'd like to work through a few examples of how to model real problems using Solver Foundation. If...
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 03/05/2009
TechFest wrap-up
Whew - an exciting and tiring week is over. We had hundreds of employees stop by our TechFest booth...
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 02/28/2009
Solver Foundation at TechFest: my "pitch"
Another busy day - we spoke with literally hundreds of Microsoft employees about Solver Foundation...
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 02/25/2009
Solver Foundation at TechFest: Day 1
TechFest Day 1 was a blast. Tuesday is the "public day" where the press, partners, and academics are...
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 02/24/2009
Microsoft Solver Foundation at TechFest 2009
Microsoft TechFest 2009 kicks off next week here in Redmond, and I am pleased to be representing...
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 02/20/2009
Microsoft Solver Foundation version 1.1 released
Microsoft Solver Foundation version 1.1 has been released and the Express version can be downloaded...
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 02/18/2009
Solver Foundation used to schedule Microsoft Tech Days '09
Pascal Belaud of Microsoft France recently used Microsoft Solver Foundation to schedule the big...
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 01/21/2009
Two way data binding using LINQ and Solver Foundation Services
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Author: Nate Brixius Date: 12/19/2008
Command Line Tools for Solver Foundation
Microsoft Solver Foundation provides several tools for modeling and solving optimization problems....
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 12/14/2008
Announcing Microsoft Solver Foundation
I'm pleased to announce the availability of the first version of Microsoft Solver Foundation! Simply...
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 11/14/2008
Coding Guidelines and Beautiful Code
For a team meeting I was asked to supply one slide's worth of C# coding guidelines. Here are the...
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 10/17/2008
Quadratic Assignment Problems: branch and bound
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Author: Nate Brixius Date: 05/03/2008
Quadratic Assignment Problems, Part I
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Author: Nate Brixius Date: 04/28/2008
How to fix bugs (and influence people)
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Author: Nate Brixius Date: 01/04/2008
How to stop ModalPopupExtender flickering
If you use the AJAX Control Toolkit's ModalPopupExtender you may have run into flicker issues. Thank...
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 08/31/2007
Linear assignment problems, part III
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Author: Nate Brixius Date: 08/09/2007
Linear assignment problems, part II
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Author: Nate Brixius Date: 08/09/2007
What makes a good software developer
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Author: Nate Brixius Date: 07/23/2007
Linear assignment problems, part I
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Author: Nate Brixius Date: 07/02/2007
Why writing software is like moving
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Author: Nate Brixius Date: 06/19/2007
Management advice from Satchel Paige
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Author: Nate Brixius Date: 03/23/2007
Change the world or go home?
I really like Hugh McLeod's blog. I can't decide whether I like this post or the cartoon above it...
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 01/17/2007
Testing Columns in a Project DataSet
Larry Duff of the Project team wrote a very nice article describing how to test column values when...
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 01/08/2007
Web services patterns and practices
I noticed this link when I booted Visual Studio the other day and I recommend it:...
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 12/13/2006
The Nutcracker Suite played on a bicycle
You should check this out if you haven't already:...
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 12/05/2006
How to generate a GUID in 250K easy steps
A friend on my previous team wrote a tool to generate GUID values where the first two bytes are...
Author: Nate Brixius Date: 12/04/2006