Category Archives: AutoMapper

AutoMapper feature: projection

I’m slowly filling in documentation for AutoMapper, which is turning out to be exactly as much fun as I estimated. Projection Projection transforms a source to a destination beyond flattening the object model.  Without extra configuration, AutoMapper requires a flattened … Continue reading 

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AutoMapper 0.2 released

With quite a few community patches submitted, I dropped AutoMapper version 0.2 today.  Here’s the release notes: Added: Better mapping exceptions that capture current mapping context Custom instantiation expressions for value formatters Custom instantiation expressions for value resolvers Support for … Continue reading 

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AutoMapper mailing list created

Since the one AutoMapper blog post comment section is a terrible place to ask and answer questions, I created an AutoMapper-users Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/automapper-users I was probably being a little presumptuous that there are user(s) plural other than me, but … Continue reading 

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AutoMapper: the Object-Object Mapper

In Domain-Driven Design, creating a rich domain model in code is essential for capturing the richness and complexity of the real-world domain.  These domain models, designed as POCOs, are not very portable, nor should they be.  Domain models live inside … Continue reading 

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