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AutoMapper 1.0 RTW

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...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2010 5:44 PM by bogardj

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AutoMapper DSL design post-mortem

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, especially since it’s not...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2009 12:28 AM by bogardj

Filed under: AutoMapper

An AutoMapper success story

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 site which uses AutoMapper...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2009 12:38 PM by bogardj

Filed under: AutoMapper

The case for two-way mapping in AutoMapper

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 a DTO straight...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2009 9:33 PM by bogardj

Filed under: AutoMapper

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. ...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2009 8:34 PM by bogardj

Filed under: AutoMapper

Analyzing AutoMapper performance

One of the last things I wanted to look at AutoMapper before pushing it out to production was to get some idea of how it performed. One of the more difficult things in doing this is trying to come up with a good idea of what exactly I should measure...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2009 8:07 PM by bogardj

Filed under: AutoMapper

How we do MVC – View models

A while back, I went over a few of the patterns and opinions we’ve gravitated towards on our current large-ish ASP.NET MVC project, or, how we do MVC . Many of these opinions were forged the hard way, by doing the wrong thing many times until we...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2009 11:06 PM by bogardj

Filed under: ASP.NET MVC, AutoMapper

Requesting features for AutoMapper

On the AutoMapper mailing list , I get a lot of what I consider wacky requests. Not because the requests aren’t valid, but rarely do I get any context of what people are trying to do with AutoMapper . As a reference, we are using AutoMapper...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2009 9:08 PM by bogardj

Filed under: AutoMapper

Podcast on AutoMapper live

A couple of weeks ago, Craig at Polymorphic Podcast was kind, and patient enough to listen to me ramble for about an hour or so on AutoMapper . We talked about quite a few topics concerning object-to-object mapping and AutoMapper, including: What...

Published Thu, May 05 2009 8:32 AM by bogardj

Filed under: AutoMapper

AutoMapper and IoC

Since we’re a big user of IoC containers, namely StructureMap (which was obviously a big inspiration in the design of the configuration), I tried to make AutoMapper IoC-friendly out of the box. It wasn’t friendly at first, Jeffrey Palermo had to...

Published Mon, May 05 2009 11:23 PM by bogardj

Filed under: AutoMapper

AutoMapper feature – custom type converters

This one came up on the mailing list, so I thought I might as well blog about it (and fill in the documentation ). Sometimes, you need to take complete control over the conversion of one type to another. This is typically when one type looks nothing like...

Published Tue, May 05 2009 9:57 PM by bogardj

Filed under: AutoMapper

AutoMapper feature: interfaces and dynamic mapping

In this post, I’ll highlight two features new in the 0.3 release: mapping to interfaces and dynamic mapping. Both of these come up in rather interesting scenarios. Mapping to interface destinations In some messaging scenarios, the message itself...

Published Tue, Apr 04 2009 10:39 PM by bogardj

Filed under: AutoMapper

AutoMapper 0.3 Beta released

Today, I dropped AutoMapper 0.3 Beta . From the release notes: New Features Mapping to interfaces Do not need any implementation configured Implementation is created at runtime using proxies Dynamic mapping Do not need to configure source/destination...

Published Sat, Apr 04 2009 10:03 PM by bogardj

Filed under: AutoMapper

Adventures with IL Merge

A recent addition to AutoMapper is the feature where I can map directly to and from interfaces. You don’t need a concrete type to do this, AutoMapper will create an implementation for you at runtime, with default property behavior. To do so...

Published Sat, Apr 04 2009 5:47 PM by bogardj

Filed under: C#, AutoMapper

AutoMapper now on TeamCity.CodeBetter.com

Big thanks to Jeffrey for getting this going: http://teamcity.codebetter.com/project.html?projectId=project13 What made it much easier was that I used TreeSurgeon as a starting place for builds. NAnt isn’t the dirt easiest thing to get going from...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2009 11:14 PM by bogardj

Filed under: AutoMapper

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AutoMapper 1.0 RC1 released

Analyzing AutoMapper performance

How we do MVC – View models

Requesting features for AutoMapper

Podcast on AutoMapper live

AutoMapper and IoC

AutoMapper feature – custom type converters

AutoMapper feature: interfaces and dynamic mapping

AutoMapper 0.3 Beta released

Adventures with IL Merge

AutoMapper now on TeamCity.CodeBetter.com