stringbuilder versus string concat

Question

In my project I am looping across a dataview result.

 string html =string.empty;
 DataView dV = data.DefaultView;
 for(int i=0;i< dV.Count;i++)
 {
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Answer 1

StringBuilder is recommended. It is mutable. It should place much less stress on the memory allocator :-)

A string instance is immutable. You cannot change it after it was created. Any operation that appears to change the string instead returns a new instance.