Benifits in which senario & when to use AutoMapper in MVC?

Question

I have created a simple application with Entity Framework code first approach. In this application I have created Models to get data from database in controlers (where most are action result are Json types) Now my application is in stable mode & working fine. 1. Does it is necessary to use ViewModel in this application? 2. Does AutoMapper will help to minimize the load time? 3. In which scenario & when to use AutoMapper in MVC ?

Saineshwar Bageri · Answer

How you get data from data base and bind to model do you use dataset and then iterate and create a list from it ? best is to use mapper which bind your Sql object to your domain object .

Benifits, in which senario & when to use AutoMapper in MVC?