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I know there are a lot of posts on the subject but I cannot find one that helps me do what I want. I know that I will eventually be using Automapper but before I start playing with it, I want to learn how to do things manually. I want to create a ViewModel, populate it with values from my entities by way of a repository and send it to my View. As simple as this sounds, I am stuggling to get it done. I'm using MVC 3, EF 4.3, Database First. I have auto-generated my classes. I'm posting the relevant entities (abbreviated/renamed for this post) and classes, here is what I have so far: Aggregate Entity: Shipping Header using System; using System.Collections.Generic; namespace My.Models { public partial class ShippingHdr { public ShippingHdr() { this.ShippingLI = new HashSet<ShippingLI>(); } public int ID { get; set; } public int ShipToSiteID { get; set; } public Nullable<System.DateTime> DateShipped { get; set; } public Nullable<System.DateTime> EstDeliveryDate { get; set; } public string FromSitePOC { get; set; } public Nullable<int> ShipperID { get; set; } public string TrackingNo { get; set; } public string Comments { get; set;} public virtual Shippers Shippers { get; set; } public virtual ICollection<ShippingLI> ShippingLI { get; set; } } } Here is my ViewModel using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Web; namespace My.Models.ViewModels { public class ShippingHeaderSummaryVM { public int ID { get; set; } public string Site { get; set; } public Nullable<System.DateTime> DateShipped { get; set; } public Nullable<System.DateTime> EstDeliveryDate { get; set; } public string TrackingNo { get; set; } public string HeaderComments { get; set; } public string Shipper { get; set; } public int NumOrders { get; set; } p

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