- Ticket #1413 - It would be useful to have a DicomReadOption? to allow bypassing of pixel data when reading, for cases when the header is just being read, and the pixel data is not required.

- added another method to the DicomAttributeCollection called GetAttribute - similar to this[] but GetAttribute does not add the attribute to the collection if it doesn't exist - we had a need for this.  Would you like this too?  (I would prefer our codebase to be the same!)

- in DicomFile.Save() method, if directory of save path does not exist, try to create (note, the Directory.CreateDirectory() method could throw an exception if something strange is going on)... don't know if you want this but I put it in my code.

Regards,

Dan
   

Hi Dan,

First, thanks for the contribution as always!

I've gone ahead and committed the contribution with some minor changes. You can find the changes in rev 4315 of the repository.

There were some changes I made to the new GetAttrbribute() methods. First, I updated some of the text messages in error conditions to have proper hex formatting of tags. I also updated the documentation for the GetAttribute() method, there was some wrong information in the documentation, which should be correct now. There was also a change with DicomFile.Save(). Specifically, the changes you made didn't handle the case where the Filename property of DicomFile was set to just a filename, and not an absolute path. In this case, the Directory.CreateDirectory() method was throwing an exception because the path being passed to it was an empty path. I modified your changes to handle this condition and not attempt to create the directory if the Filename property was just a filename.

Thanks again for the contribution.

Best Regards,
Steve