How do you merge two objects in AutoMapper?

Question

Given the following:

public class NameValueContainer
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public IList<string> Values { get; set; }
}

var first = new NameValueContainer
{
    Name = "First",
    Values = new List<string> { "Value1", "Value2" }
}

var second = new NameValueContainer
{
    Name = "Second",
    Values = new List<string> { "Value3" }
}

Using AutoMapper, how do I merge first and second so that I am left with?:

Name: "First"

Values: "Value1", "Value2", "Value3"

Answer 1

As the comments point out, tying this to AutoMapper doesn't really make sense. The easiest way to do this is using Linq:

var merged = new NameValueContainer
{
    Name = first.Name,
    Values = first.Values.Union(second.Values).ToList()
};
//merged.Values: "Value1", "Value2", "Value3"