Comments on: AutoMapper feature – custom type converters

By: Trevor

Trevor — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:27:51 +0000

Jimmy, any chance you could offer any advice on this conundrum?:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2470533/automapper-a-viable-alternative-to-two-way-databinding-using-a-formview

By: bogardj

bogardj — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:14:18 +0000

@Kevin

yeah, I left the part out here about supporting TypeConverters. That also works out-of-the-box. As for IConvertible, it seems like such a retarded interface, as they suggest you throw an exception for conversions you don’t support.

@Johan

Thanks! I’ll get that updated

By: Johan

Johan — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:29:51 +0000

I also downloaded the source and when looking at the samples and unittests things become a lot clearer. Maybe you can put a remark at the download site that samples are included in the source.

Thx

By: Kevin Dente

Kevin Dente — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:10:38 +0000

Have you considered using the stock TypeConverters and/or IConvertible by default as a convention? Seems like that would cover a lot of out-of-the-box use cases.