Cleanest Way To Map Entity To DTO With Linq Select?

Question

I\'ve been trying to come up with a clean and reusable way to map entities to their DTOs. Here is an example of what I\'ve come up with and where I\'m stuck.

Answer 1

Automapper is the best way .

For me, I use this for simple objects only, but I don't recommend it

  public static class ObjectMapper
{
    public static T Map(object objfrom, T objto)
    {
        var ToProperties = objto.GetType().GetProperties();
        var FromProperties = objfrom.GetType().GetProperties();

        ToProperties.ToList().ForEach(o =>
            {
                var fromp = FromProperties.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Name == o.Name && x.PropertyType == o.PropertyType);
                if (fromp != null)
                {
                    o.SetValue(objto, fromp.GetValue(objfrom));
                }
            });

        return objto;
    }
}

And I call it like that wherever I want

   var myDTO= ObjectMapper.Map(MyObject, new MyObjectDTO());