static void Main()
{
    // Concatenation of literals is performed at compile time, not run time.
    string text = @"Historically, the world of data and the world of objects " +
    "have not been well integrated. Programmers work in C# or Visual Basic " +
    "and also in SQL or XQuery. On the one side are concepts such as classes, " +
    "objects, fields, inheritance, and .NET Framework APIs. On the other side " +
    "are tables, columns, rows, nodes, and separate languages for dealing with " +
    "them. Data types often require translation between the two worlds; there are " +
    "different standard functions. Because the object world has no notion of query, a " +
    "query can only be represented as a string without compile-time type checking or " +
    "IntelliSense support in the IDE. Transferring data from SQL tables or XML trees to " +
    "objects in memory is often tedious and error-prone.";

    Console.WriteLine(text);
}

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    // To run this program, provide a command line string.
    // In Visual Studio, see Project > Properties > Debug.
    string userName = args[0];
    string date = DateTime.Today.ToShortDateString();

    // Use the + and += operators for one-time concatenations.
    string str = "Hello " + userName + ". Today is " + date + ".";
    System.Console.WriteLine(str);

    str += " How are you today?";
    System.Console.WriteLine(str);

    // Keep the console window open in debug mode.
    Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit.");
    Console.ReadKey();
}

// Example output: 
//  Hello Alexander. Today is 1/22/2008.
//  Hello Alexander. Today is 1/22/2008. How are you today?
//  Press any key to exit.
//

class StringBuilderTest
{
    static void Main()
    {
        string text = null;

        // Use StringBuilder for concatenation in tight loops.
        System.Text.StringBuilder sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder();
        for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
        {
            sb.AppendLine(i.ToString());
        }
        System.Console.WriteLine(sb.ToString());

        // Keep the console window open in debug mode.
        System.Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit.");
        System.Console.ReadKey();
    }
}
// Output:
// 0
// 1
// 2
// 3
// 4
// ...
//