Microsoft Solver Foundation v2.1 Released

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I am pleased to announce the release of Solver Foundation v2.1 . The Express edition is available now at https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/solverfoundation. The Standard and Academic Editions of Solver Foundation v2.1 have been released-to-manufacturing, and will be available online via MSDN and MSDNAA subscriber downloads. Our Enterprise edition will soon be available through Gurobi Optimization.

Version 2.1 provides new APIs and tool support to make it easier than ever to build, solve, and deploy enterprise-scale optimization models using Visual Studio 2010 and Office 2010. All of the additions in version 2.1 are a direct result of customer and partner feedback.

  • Application Support
    • Excel add-in for Office 2010
    • .Net 4.0 / Visual Studio 2010 support
    • MSDN documentation and improved samples (including model deployment on Sharepoint 2010)
  • Reporting
    • Full programmatic access to report data
    • Third-party report extensibility
    • Sensitivity, infeasibility reporting and more
  • Events
    • Monitor solution progress as it happens
    • Customized data binding
    • Customized termination criteria
  • Performance
    • SFS models consume less memory and are analyzed more quickly
    • Excel data binding performance on large data sets improved

2.1 has a pragmatic focus and is meant to address the issues that .Net programmers face building and debugging optimization models. Try out the Express version and let us know what you think!