Don't Use AutoMapper in C#! Do THIS Instead!

Don't use AutoMapper in C#. Seriously! It could affect your app's performance and looking at the way Automapper is usually configured, it doesn't really gain you any development speed. But what can we use instead? In this video I provide some alternatives to AutoMapper.

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Contents:
1. Intro: 00:00
2. An AutoMapper disaster: 00:50
3. Alternative 1: Direct class mappings: 03:34
4. Setting up benchmarks: 06:05
5. AutoMapper, bad performance: 07:20
6. Alternative 2: Implicit operators: 08:33
7. New benchmarks: 09:58
8. Alternative 2: explicit operators: 11:48
9. Conclusions: 14:04

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