ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

Creating and using a ViewModel with AutoMapper

In this recipe, you will learn how to create and use ViewModel with AutoMapper. AutoMapper is a convention-based object-to-object mapper library (according to http://automapper.org/). We usually use AutoMapper to create ViewModel, Data Transfer Objects (DTO), and more classes from DataModel classes. AutoMapper makes it very easy to instantiate a class and fill the properties from other classes.