Best way to break long strings in C# source code

Question

I am wondering what is the \"best practice\" to break long strings in C# source code. Is this string

\"string1\"+
\"string2\"+
\"string3\"

con

Answer 1

If the whitespace isn't important then you can use the @ escape character to write multi-line strings in your code. This is useful if you have a query in your code for example:

string query = @"SELECT whatever
FROM tableName
WHERE column = 1";

This will give you a string with line breaks and tabs, but for a query that doesn't matter.