when using Automapper, Should I flatten/map my internal objetcs of the View Model also ?

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Hi all,

I am using AutoMapper in my project along with, NHibernate and ASP.NET MVC 2.

As the title states, if I have a list of DTOs or a DTO inside the parent DTO that I am mapping to the View Model, should I flatten out the inner DTOs as well ?

Thanks

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