Automapper: Handling NULL members

Posted by Patrick Steele on March 19, 2011

A question about null members came up on the Automapper mailing list.  While the problem wasn't with Automapper, investigating the issue led to an interesting feature in Automapper. Normally, Automapper ignores null members.  After all, what is there really to do?  Imagine these source classes:... [read more]

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