A plaster cast is a copy of a sculpture, which is cast in plaster. A plaster cast can accurately reproduce the details of the original sculpture, but is usually much less durable. It is often used as a stage in the casting process.
Concatenate Strings in C#: + Operator vs. String.Concat vs. StringBuilder. In the source code of almost any software application individual strings are concatenated into one string. To implement a string concatenation is thus something absolutely rudimentary and should belong to the repertoire of every software developer. In C# there are several options available to connect strings.
int result = a + 5; // a is a variable with a value, 5 is a literal string name = Jeff Atwood; // name is a variable initialized // with the string literal, Jeff Atwood int[] array = new int[] {1, 2, 3}; // C# has array literals (this is actually three // int literals within an array literal)