Using AutoMapper: Getting Started 06 January 2014 on automapper Posts in this Series. Getting Started; Creating Mappings; I've been using AutoMapper for a long time, and I've found it to be both simple and robust, but what it is not is well documented. It's my goal to demystify its use a bit In ASP.NET MVC applications, you have to map values between view model objects and domain model objects in many situations. In such scenarios, you can use AutoMapper for mapping values between objects to objects.In our code we copy values from our View model object ContactViewModel to domain model object Contact. 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 interesting is that it provides some interesting conventions to take the dirty work out of figuring out how to map type A to type B. Basic object mapper for simple model-viewmodel-model property mapping #5883. Closed danroth27 opened this Issue Mar 3, 2017 · 139 comments Closed Basic object mapper for simple model-viewmodel-model property mapping #5883. danroth27 AutoMapper as an example isn't too bloated to avoiding MVC, Service Model, ViewModel and AutoMapper (self.dotnet) submitted 3 years ago by [deleted] Hello everyone, this is a kind of a follow up to this question: Would you justify the use of AutoMapper in this layer (the MVC controller) to map the service model to the ViewModel and vice-versa or AutoMapper is a library, that transform a boredom of copying into funny experience. AutoMapper is a productivity tool designed to help you write less of the boring, tedious, repetitive code we have to write on a near day to day basis. 5 AutoMapper tips and tricks. Jon Preece Aug 23, This is the basic structure of the code I will use throughout the tutorial; Fortunately, map creation initializes the AutoMapper context, so it only needs to occur once before map