Prerequisites for development branch

Fellow Oak Dicom is developed with Visual Studio 2022 or later.

fo-dicom.core targets .Net Standard 2.0 and uses C# 8 as language version. This requires at least NetCore3 SDK to be installed on the machine.

fo-dicom.Tests are targeting .Net Framework 4.6.2, .Net 6 and .Net 8. In order to run the unittests you need to have those SDKs installed.

Getting the source code

• Fork the repository fo-dicom/fo-dicom into your repository and clone it to your workstation using your favorite git client. This is the prefered way if you plan to contribute.
• Or simply download the sources as ZIP file from github.

The repository contains several project and solution files. The current solution is FO-DICOM.Full.sln, so open this solution file. Dicom.Full.sln should be opened if you need to open the old version for bugfixing.

After opening the solution file you will find several projects:

Project	Description
FO-DICOM.Core	This project contains the core logic for handling DICOM files, and working with DICOM services
Tools/FO-DICOM.Dump	Is is some sample project that can be used to reproduce some isses and debug into the code. The application opens files, shows all tags and values, can anonymize the file and render the image.
Tests/FO-DICOM.Tests	The xUnit based unit test project
Tests/FO-DICOM.Tests.Windows	Windows-only unit test project
Tests/FO-DICOM.Benchmark	This project executes a benchmark test for some typical actions like opening and parsing a dataset or sending a file via store scu and scp.
Platform/*	Within this folder there are several projects, that contain some platform specific code and can be then registered in DI container.
Serialization/*	Projects integrationg serialization into Json, Xml or any other format