LandWorks first introduced Web AutoMapper in 2013 as an inexpensive, fast and easy method of processing many types of standard property descriptions and converting them into digital map polygons.

Instead, you pass in the AutoMapper configuration info to the LINQ expression. It is a bit more verbose, but in some ways more flexible. Here is an example from the Migrating from static API guide.

Initializing AutoMapper is easy. It has a number of default conventions for mapping that it recognizes; it also allows you to configure your own mappings if you encounter a situation not handled by ...

AutoMapper calls these configuration classes "Profiles." You define your own profile by creating a class that inherits from AutoMapper.Profile. Listing 2, is an example Profile that I could've used in ...