AutoMapper 1.0 RC1 released


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 be doing bug fixes.  I did work in quite a few new enhancements, but I’m waiting on bigger changes until after the 1.0 release.  From the CodePlex download site:

New Features

  • Added non-generic CreateMap overload
  • Can specify custom mapping ordering for individual destination members
  • Before/After map callbacks for custom pre/post processing
  • Registration of custom pre- and postfixes on member type names (i.e. CustomerKey can map to Customer)
  • Mapping from dictionaries to split out key-value pairs
  • Basic support for IDataReader/IDataRecord
  • Support for custom naming conventions
  • Support for IListSource (for Entity Framework)

Enhancements

  • AllowNullDestinationValues now defaults to “true”
  • Mapping operations thread-safe
  • Performance improvements for mapping pipeline, including late-bound expression trees and Lightweight Code Generation
  • Allowing using the destination value for individual members
  • Lots of internal refactoring around the mapping engine to support various IoC scenarios
  • Assembly marked as CLS compliant
  • Registering global and profile-specific aliases for names
  • Support for custom destination type constructors
  • Upgraded to latest LinFu release

Bug Fixes

  • Validation errors on explicitly implemented interfaces
  • Collections with null elements caused exceptions
  • Readonly destination members were causing validation errors
  • Removed null checking in custom value resolvers

Enjoy!!!

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