如何手动填充ViewModel（不使用AutoMapper！）

I know there are a lot of posts on the subject but I cannot find one that helps me do what I want. I know that I will eventually be using Automapper but before I start playing with it, I want to learn how to do things manually. I want to create a ViewModel, populate it with values from my entities by way of a repository and send it to my View. As simple as this sounds, I am stuggling to get it done. I'm using MVC 3, EF 4.3, Database First. I have auto-generated my classes. I'm posting the relevant entities (abbreviated/renamed for this post) and classes, here is what I have so far: I know there are a lot of posts on the subject