How to automatically map the values between instances of two different classes if both have same properties?

Question

I have two classes with exactly same members (properties and fields) with same datatypes. I want to map the members from one to other in automated way. I know there are more

Answer 1

There are a number of tools that do this. Look at the "TranslateTo" routine in service stack as an example. They have excellent auto mapping (https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/wiki/Auto-mapping).

Using this, all you would have to do is:

 obj2 = obj1.TranslateTo();

Simple and elegant!

In case you are interested a few other references to similar topics:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/286294/object-to-object-mapper
• Best Practices for mapping one object to another
• http://www.softwarerockstar.com/2011/05/complex-object-mapping-using-automapper/