Category Archives: AutoMapper

AutoMapper Git workflow – dealing with bugs/issues

Posted on April 30, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

Along with the switch of VCS to git came the ability to have much improved workflows that simply weren’t possible in CVCS like TFS or SVN.  The nice thing about Git over CVCS is that because of its power, I … Continue reading →

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AutoMapper source moved to GitHub

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

After putting it through the paces, I’m ready to (finally) announce that the AutoMapper source code has moved to GitHub: http://github.com/jbogard/AutoMapper I wanted to wait to “officially” move until I had moved the build over, added new features and processed … Continue reading →

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Teaching AutoMapper about our conventions

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Joshua Flanagan

I often need to send data from my entities to the client in JSON format to enable rich AJAX functionality. It isn’t practical to serialize the entities directly, so they are first flattened to a data transfer object (DTO) before … Continue reading →

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AutoMapper for Silverlight 3.0 Alpha

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

In between workshops here at the MVP Summit, I’ve been working on pushing out an early Alpha for an AutoMapper version built against Silverlight 3.0.  Thanks to some existing patches from the community, it was pretty straightforward to get things … Continue reading →

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AutoMapper 1.0 RTW

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

AutoMapper is now officially 1.0.  You can go grab the latest binaries here: AutoMapper 1.0 RTW Here are the release notes: New Features Changing the null substitute method name and allow any type of null substitute Consolidating custom constructor configuration … Continue reading →

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AutoMapper DSL design post-mortem

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Jimmy Bogard

As I move towards the 1.0 release of AutoMapper, I’m already running in to things I wish I had done differently.  I still will probably fix all of these eventually, but none of these design issues should prevent a release, … Continue reading →

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Automapper Auto Profile Registration.

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Eric Hexter

  On some of our projects we have been experimenting with smaller AutoMapper profiles.  The idea is that it is easier to digest a smaller profile. We have gone so far as creating a profile for each Domain object and … Continue reading →

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An AutoMapper success story

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Jimmy Bogard

I got a cool message on the AutoMapper mailing list from Howard Van Rooijen on how they used AutoMapper in a site they recently launched to production: Hello AutoMapper Community, I just wanted to let you know that an e-commerce … Continue reading →

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The case for two-way mapping in AutoMapper

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Jimmy Bogard

I’m getting more and more requests around the area of two-way mapping, meaning you’d do something like: Product –> ProductDTO ProductDTO –> Product Product being an entity, I can’t for the life of me understand why I’d want to dump … Continue reading →

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AutoMapper 1.0 RC1 released

Posted on September 15, 2009 by Jimmy Bogard

It’s been quite a long journey with AutoMapper, with the origins written just over a year ago now.  I’ve focused on stability and performance since the 0.3.1 release back in May, and from here to the 1.0 release, I’ll just … Continue reading →

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