[Osi] C# interface to OSI

[thierry bourrillon]

Jan-Willem,

thank you for trying to share your work.

another approach could be to have coin solvers as plugins in new Microsoft
Solver Foundation.

Best Regards,
Thierry

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Goossens Jan-Willem <
Jan-Willem.Goossens at nc3a.nato.int> wrote:

>  Thierry,
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> Ah, finally somebody picked up on that!..
>
> Yes, a few years ago we (I..) started to develop a .NET wrapper, not unlike
> flopc++ or CONCERT (but not as advanced), with classes like Model, Variable,
> Constraint and (linear) Expression, and many overloaded operators (like "+",
> "<=" etc). The wrapper is written in C++/CLI (aka C++ with Managed
> extension) in Visual Studio 2005, and simply links in the LIBs of CBC, CGL,
> CLP and their OSIs, to form one mixed-mode .NET DLL.
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> Setting all this up was not too difficult, and we've been using this a lot
> ever since. This final product has, until now, never left
> closed-source-ness, partly also because nobody was asking for it.
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> Maybe this is a good point to try to get my bosses to agree to give back
> and contribute our code to the COIN community (but probably don't hold your
> breath..)
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> From the other side: would the COIN-OR be interested in such a project
> being added?
>
> (I'll have a look at the Contributions page)
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> Regards,
>
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>
> Jan-Willem
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> *From:* osi-bounces at list.coin-or.org [mailto:osi-bounces at list.coin-or.org]
> *On Behalf Of *thierry bourrillon
> *Sent:* Sunday, December 07, 2008 01:30
> *To:* osi at list.coin-or.org
> *Subject:* [Osi] C# interface to OSI
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I would like to use OSI in c# to Solve some MIP problems.
>
> I found some old post in the list :
> http://list.coin-or.org/pipermail/coin-discuss/2006-March/001897.html
>
> and was wandering if now there would be a .net interface for OSI I could
> use ? or some sample code ?
>
> Best Regards,
> Thierry
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