>I've never used AutoMapper but you seem to be mapping from a small object to a larger one with additional properties - do you have it the wrong way around ?
>Or do you have some rule in the map which tells it how to populate ItemType ?
In order to resolve that problem I had to add ItemType to the model as well. I don't know why all other properties were successfully ignored in run-time and this one caused troubles.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
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