I finally figured out the solution to my question above. The error was happening on a legacy webforms application that was using sql data source for the grid. The sql datasource was using the 'ProviderName' property.
Once I removed this property everything started working.
Had the same problem: NRE from application start. Exception occures at MvcMiniProfiler.MiniProfiler. AddSqlTiming(SqlTiming stats) Problem reason: database call in Application_AuthenticateRequest() Problem solution: MiniProfiler.Start(); moved to the end of Application_AuthenticateRequest() method.
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