Adding new line of data to TextBox

Question

I'm doing a chat client, and currently I have a button that will display data to a multi-line textbox when clicked. Is this the only way to add data to the multi-line textbox? I feel this is extremely inefficient, because if the conversation gets really long the string will get really long as well.

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            string sent = chatBox.Text;
            displayBox.Text += sent + "\r\n";

        }

Solution 1

Following are the ways

1. From the code (the way you have mentioned) ->

   displayBox.Text += sent + "\r\n";
   

   or

   displayBox.Text += sent + Environment.NewLine;
   

2. From the UI
   a) WPF

   Set TextWrapping="Wrap" and AcceptsReturn="True"   
   

   Press Enter key to the textbox and new line will be created

   b) Winform text box

   Set TextBox.MultiLine and TextBox.AcceptsReturn to true
   

Solution 2

I find this method saves a lot of typing, and prevents a lot of typos.

string nl = "\r\n";

txtOutput.Text = "First line" + nl + "Second line" + nl + "Third line";