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Disabling the Automatic Loading of the Default DICOM IOD Table

The default DICOM IOD Table is a large table with many entries. When the DICOM library is initally loaded, the DICOM IOD Table is not initally loaded. It will be automatically loaded the first time it is accessed. Specifically, the first call to any of the following methods will cause the automatic load of the default DICOM Context Group table (if it has NOT already been loaded):

To disable the automatic load of the Default DICOM IOD Table, call any of the following methods in your initialization code (before calling any other DICOM methods):

Therefore, to prevent the default DICOM IOD Table from automatically loading, call DicomIodTable.Instance.Reset in your application initialization code.