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Concert Technology Tutorial for .NET Users

This chapter introduces ILOG CPLEX through ILOG Concert Technology in the .NET framework. It gives you an overview of a typical application, and highlights procedures for:

Creating a model
Populating the model with data, either by rows, by columns, or by nonzeros
Solving that model
Displaying results after solving

This chapter concentrates on an example using C#.NET. There are also examples of VB.NET (Visual Basic in the .NET framework) delivered with ILOG CPLEX in yourCPLEXhome\examples\src\vb. Because of their .NET framework, those VB.NET examples differ from the traditional Visual Basic examples that may already be familiar to some ILOG CPLEX users.

In the standard distribution of the product, the file dotnet.html offers useful details about installing the product as well as compiling and executing examples.

Note

This chapter consists of a tutorial based on a procedure-based learning strategy. The tutorial is built around a sample problem, available in a file that can be opened in an integrated development environment, such as Microsoft Visual Studio. As you follow the steps in the tutorial, you can examine the code and apply concepts explained in the tutorials. Then you compile and execute the code to analyze the results. Ideally, as you work through the tutorial, you are sitting in front of your computer with ILOG Concert Technology for .NET users and ILOG CPLEX already installed and available in Microsoft Visual Studio.

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