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Disabling the Automatic Loading of the Default DICOM Context Group Table

The default DICOM Context Group table is a large table with many entries. When the DICOM library is initially loaded, the DICOM Context Group Table is not initially 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):

DicomContextGroupTable.GetFirst
DicomContextGroupTable.GetLast
DicomContextGroupTable.GetNext
DicomContextGroupTable.GetPrevious
DicomContextGroupTable.Count
DicomContextGroupTable.Find
DicomContextGroupTable.FindIndex
DicomContextGroupTable.Insert
DicomContextGroupTable.Delete
DicomContextGroupTable.Exists
DicomContextGroupTable.GetFirstCodedConcept
DicomContextGroupTable.GetLastCodedConcept
DicomContextGroupTable.GetNextCodedConcept
DicomContextGroupTable.GetPreviousCodedConcept
DicomContextGroupTable.GetContextGroup
DicomContextGroupTable.GetCodedConceptCount
DicomContextGroupTable.FindCodedConcept
DicomContextGroupTable.SetCodeMeaning
DicomContextGroupTable.InsertCodedConcept
DicomContextGroupTable.DeleteCodedConcept
DicomContextGroupTable.ExistsCodedConcept

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