Sorting Images in DicomObjects is quite different in COM and .NET versions, due to the different structures of the collections which hold them.

Microsoft has defined that you cannot use the overloaded syntax for the tag to load .

Any ‘valid’ Dicom Image is a conglomeration of Pixel data and several mandatory data attributes.

Conversion of a DicomObjects ActiveX/COM project to .NET looks initially daunting, but in fact is quite simple, and for those using any of the complicated ActionComplete/ActionUpdate mechanisms and asynchronous DicomConnection objects will find that the resulting code is lot simpler and easier to maintain after conversion.

This is a very small and quick example to show how to down size an image to an 8 bit image and resize down to 1/4 of the size (50% each dimension).

A Presentation State is an independent DICOM SOP Instance that contains information on how a particular image should be displayed.