Using AutoMapper In MVC Project

Before starting this article I would like to give a definition of AutoMapper. AutoMapper is an object-object mapper that allows you to solve the problem of manually mapping each property of a class with the same properties of another class.

Before AutoMapper was introduced if we wanted to assign one object property to another object property then we were following a long procedure. We had to map each property of these two different objects. Suppose in one class we have 30 properties and we want to map this with another class having 30 properties, then we would have to map this property one-by-one 30 times.

Thus for this problem, a new concept, AutoMapper, was introduced. It solves this problem using two steps.

Here I will explain how we can use AutoMapper to perform a simple insert operation.

Create a new MVC project with the following layers. Here I have used Repository layer where all my interfaces are stored.



Here I am not explaining all the layers as you already know I have used Entity Framework with Repository pattern. In Repository Layer I have the interface for a particular operation.

Here is my UI for Registration.



And here I have declared a model as follows.

1. public class RegisterModel
2. {
4. public string FirstName { get; set; }
6. public string LastName { get; set; }
8. public string Password { get; set; }
10. public string Email { get; set; }
11. public string ImageUrl { get; set; }
13. }