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    <p>I've been fiddling about and trying multiple things, but I'm going wrong somewhere. I tried to make my first attempt using AutoMapper as simple as possible. I'm trying to create a new Brand and save it to the database, using a CreateBrandViewModel. Some of this might look a bit fruity, but I was trying to get it to work in the simplest way possible.</p> <p>Domain:</p> <pre><code>public class Brand : EntityBase { public virtual string Name { get; set; } //Not Nullable public virtual bool IsActive { get; set; } // Not Nullable public virtual Product DefaultProduct { get; set; } // Nullable public virtual IList&lt;Product&gt; Products { get; set; } // Nullable } </code></pre> <p>ViewModel:</p> <pre><code>public class CreateBrandViewModel { public string Name { get; set; } public bool IsActive { get; set; } } </code></pre> <p>Controller </p> <p>this is where I've been playing about the most for a while, so it looks a bit strange now. The commented out code hasn't resolved my problem. </p> <pre><code> [HttpPost] public ActionResult Create(CreateBrandViewModel createBrandViewModel) { if(ModelState.IsValid) { Mapper.CreateMap&lt;Brand, CreateBrandViewModel&gt;(); //.ForMember( // dest =&gt; dest.Name, // opt =&gt; opt.MapFrom(src =&gt; src.Name) //) //.ForMember( // dest =&gt; dest.IsActive, // opt =&gt; opt.MapFrom(src =&gt; src.IsActive) //); Mapper.Map&lt;Brand, CreateBrandViewModel&gt;(createBrandViewModel) Session.SaveOrUpdate(createBrandViewModel); return RedirectToAction("Index"); } else { return View(createBrandViewModel); } } </code></pre> <p>Just for the record, BrandController inherits from SessionController (Ayendes way), and transactions are managed through an ActionFilter. Though thats is a bit irrelevant I think. I've tried various different ways so I have different error messages - if you can take a look at whats happening and tell me how you might expect to use it that would be great.</p> <p>For reference, my fluent nhibernate mapping for Brand:</p> <pre><code>public class BrandMap : ClassMap&lt;Brand&gt; { public BrandMap() { Id(x =&gt; x.Id); Map(x =&gt; x.Name) .Not.Nullable() .Length(50); Map(x =&gt; x.IsActive) .Not.Nullable(); References(x =&gt; x.DefaultProduct); HasMany(x =&gt; x.Products); } } </code></pre> <p><strong>Edit 1</strong></p> <p>I just tried the following code, but putting a breakpoint on Session.SaveOrUpdate(updatedModel) the fields are null and false, when they shouldn't be:</p> <pre><code> var brand = new Brand(); var updatedBrand = Mapper.Map&lt;Brand, CreateBrandViewModel&gt;(brand, createBrandViewModel); Session.SaveOrUpdate(updatedBrand); return RedirectToAction("Index"); } </code></pre>
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    1. COThought I'd throw in a suggestion for you even though im late on this question, instead of calling CreateMap in your controller, you could create a profile and have that profile loaded in App_Start or Global.asax that way every time your controller is called, you are not causing over head of calling the same mapping code over and over, it only needs to be mapped once per application start.
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