Using the MSVC++ IDE

• Open the solution file user.sln.

• The configuration steps are exactly the same with the MSVC++ section of SYMPHONY. The only difference is that, you have the user project instead of the symphony project. Go through the related steps of section 2.2.3 to see how to get USER executable.

• Once you have the proper settings, choose Build user.exe from the Build menu. This should successfully build the executable.

• To test the executable, right click on the user project, go to the Debug tab and set the program arguments to -F .. $\backslash$.. $\backslash$sample.mps. Note that command-line switches are Unix-style.

• Now choose Execute from the build menu and you have a working branch and bound solver! After successful compilation, you can fill in the user callback functions as describe in Section 5.