Activities of "stefanbelo"

I know that it is used AutoMapper library, but I cannot find in my project how it is done.

Having this model:

[Table("ZptArticles")]
    public class Article : CreationAuditedEntity<int, User>
    {
        public virtual string Title { get; set; }

        public virtual string Text { get; set; }

        public virtual int ViewCount { get; set; }

        public virtual ICollection<Comment> Comments { get; set; }

        public virtual ICollection<ArticleTag> Tags { get; set; }

        public Article()
        {
        }

        public Article(string title, string text)
        {
            Title = title;
            Text = text;
        }
    }

and this Dto:

[AutoMapFrom(typeof(Article))]
    public class ArticleDto : CreationAuditedEntityDto
    {
        public string Title { get; set; }

        public string Text { get; set; }

        public int ViewCount { get; set; }

        public int CommentCount { get; set; }

        public string CreatorUserName { get; set; }
    }

It is clear that EF return CreatorUser as well, so from CreatorUser.Name, we have got maybe our: CreatorUserName in Dto mapping.

If I would like to return Dto with number of comments, how would I do so?

Is it possible (for EF) to avoid loading all comments for the article, as I do not want full comments content, but just number of article's comments?