We had the same issue on our build server. MsTest seemed to remove DLLs it deemed unnecessary (note : this claim is only an educated guess). To fix it, add an explicit call to something in AutoMapper.Net4.dll. For instance, with the class ListSourceMapper : var useless = new ListSourceMapper() Adding this to a project which … Read more
So based on Bruno’s answer here and John Skeet’s post about singletons I came up with the following solution to have this run only once and be completely isolated in class library unlike the accepted answer which relies on the consumer of the library to configure the mappings in the parent project: public static class … Read more
You can’t do exactly what you want, but you can get pretty close by specifying mapping options when you call Map. Ignore the property in your config: cfg.CreateMap<Message, MessageDto>() .ForMember(dest => dest.Timestamp, opt => opt.Ignore()); Then pass in options when you call your map: int someValue = 5; var dto = Mapper.Map<Message, MessageDto>(message, opt => … Read more