This tutorial requires a working knowledge of C#.NET.

If you are experienced in mathematical programming or operations research, you are probably already familiar with many concepts used in this tutorial. However, little or no experience in mathematical programming or operations research is required to follow this tutorial.

You should have ILOG CPLEX and ILOG Concert Technology for .NET users installed in your development environment before starting this tutorial. In your integrated development environment, you should be able to compile, link, and execute a sample application provided with ILOG CPLEX and ILOG Concert Technology for .NET users before starting the tutorial.

To check your installation before starting the tutorial, open

yourCPLEXhome\examples\i86_2000_7.1\format\examples.net.sln

in your integrated development environment, where yourCPLEXhome indicates the place you installed ILOG CPLEX on your platform, and format indicates one of these possibilities: stat_mda, stat_mta, or vb. An integrated development environment, such as Microsoft Visual Studio, will then check for the DLLs of ILOG CPLEX and ILOG Concert Technology for .NET users and warn you if they are not available to it.

Another way to check your installation is to load the project for one of the samples delivered with your product. For example, you might load the following project into Microsoft Visual Studio to check a C# example of the diet problem:

yourCPLEXhome\examples\i86_2000_7.1\format\Diet.csproj