String Encryption with Visual Basic .NET by Brian Patterson

Description

If you have searched the various .NET help files, you may have encountered encryption examples that always deal with encrypting the contents of a file. This isn't very useful when you need to encrypt something that isn't already contained within a file. In this article, author Brian Patterson covers many of the encryption classes provided in the .NET Framework. Once you've got a grasp on how to use these algorithms, Patterson wraps things up by guiding you through a sample application that will encrypt information before saving it to either a SQL Server or Oracle database server.