AutoMapper is geared towards model projection scenarios to flatten complex object models to DTOs and other simple objects, whose design is better suited for serialization, communication, messaging, …

AutoMapper uses a fluent configuration API to define an object-object mapping strategy. AutoMapper uses a convention-based matching algorithm to match up source to destination values. AutoMapper …

What is AutoMapper? AutoMapper is an object-object mapper. Object-object mapping works by transforming an input object of one type into an output object of a different type. What makes …

AutoMapper is an object-object mapper. Object-object mapping works by transforming an input object of one type into an output object of a different type. What makes AutoMapper interesting is that it …

The real power of custom type converters is that they are used any time AutoMapper finds the source/destination pairs on any mapped types. We can build a set of custom type converters, on top …

AutoMapper uses a fluent configuration API to define an object-object mapping strategy. AutoMapper uses a convention-based matching algorithm to match up source to destination values. AutoMapper …

return View(dto); } } ``` ## Unsupported operations One "feature" of AutoMapper allowed you to modify configuration at runtime. That caused many problems, so the new API does not allow you to do this. …

Previously, AutoMapper could handle circular references by keeping track of what was mapped, and on every mapping, check a local hashtable of source/destination objects to see if the item was already …

The built-in enum mapper is not configurable, it can only be replaced. Alternatively, AutoMapper supports convention based mapping of enum values in a separate package …

Hand-rolled mapping code, though tedious, has the advantage of being testable. One of the inspirations behind AutoMapper was to eliminate not just the custom mapping code, but eliminate the need for …