Using AutoMapper to map the property of an object to a string

Question

I have the following model:

public class Tag
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

I want to be able to

Answer 1

This is because you are trying to map to the actual destination type rather than a property of the destination type. You can achieve what you want with:

Mapper.CreateMap().ConvertUsing(source => source.Name ?? string.Empty);

although it would be a lot simpler just to override ToString on the Tag class.