Yep, I knew about uORM... as well as the many other libraries that could handle mapping:

• Umbraco Mapper
• Glass Mapper - for Umbraco
• Zbu.ModelsBuilder
• UmbCodeGen
• Umbraco Inception
• oldies like uSiteBuilder
• even uComponents' own uMapper and it's fork nuMapper

There are probably several more that I'd heard of, but can't recall right now.

Originally Ditto was inspired by a post on the 24 Days in Umbraco website: Mapping Umbraco content to POCOs for strongly typed views.

I was looking for a way to simply drop in a library that could convert content/media nodes (e.g. IPublishedContent) to a strongly-typed model... literally a simple POCO - without any class inheritance that would tie to a specific framework or implementation.

Basically I was interested in one thing only, doing this...

var poco = Model.Content.As<MyPoco>();

... and that's all.

I'm not too interested in pushing Ditto as a framework, nor am I saying that it is better than any other approach. I simply wanted to shared my code :-)