Cymen Vig

AutoMapper is great but it is both specialized, heavy duty and lacking in documentation. The lack of documentation can bite you: if you need to map two objects in different ways in different places things may not work as you expect. For example, say I have Mapper.CreateMap<MyObject, MyObject>() with a number of .ForMember(x => x.Something, opt => opt.Ignore()). Now if I create the same mapping elsewhere but with different .ForMember options the prior .ForMember mapping options persist into my current map. To fix this, one can do a Mapper.Reset() which will blow away the global mappings. But creating mappings is expensive. Food for thought.