The MVC Mini Profiler is an awesome tool that can help you reduce your page load times by showing you exactly how long each action, database query, view and even partial view took to load. It can be a little tricky to get right, especially using Entity Framework, but if you follow these steps you [...]

You can quickly and securely encrypt data in SQL Server 2005+ by using the native Symmetric Keys functionality. The most common encryption algorithms symmetric key encryption supports are Des, Triple Des, RC4 128bit, AES 128bit and AES 256bit. Setup your database To create a symmetric key, we first need to setup our database with a [...]