How do I use automapper to map a dataset with multiple tables

Question

DISCLAIMER: this is a copy paste from an older stackoverflow post that isn\'t available anymore, but I have exaclty the same problem, so it seemed appropriate to rep

Answer 1

I'm incredibly late to the party, but in case this helps someone else.

What I did was serialize my dataset to a JSON string using Json.NET.

var datasetSerialized = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(dataset, Formatting.Indented);

View the json as a string whilst debugging in Visual Studio and copy this to your clipboard.

Then in Visual Studio go to Edit -> Paste Special -> Paste JSON As Classes

You will then have a POCO for each table with relationships.

Finally, deserialize your JSON into the "RootObject" created when you pasted the JSON As Classes.

var rootObj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(datasetSerialized);