How can we prepend strings with StringBuilder?

You could try an extension method:

/// <summary>
/// kind of a dopey little one-off for StringBuffer, but 
/// an example where you can get crazy with extension methods
/// </summary>
public static void Prepend(this StringBuilder sb, string s)
{
    sb.Insert(0, s);
}

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("World!");
sb.Prepend("Hello "); // Hello World!

I haven't used it but Ropes For Java Sounds intriguing. The project name is a play on words, use a Rope instead of a String for serious work. Gets around the performance penalty for prepending and other operations. Worth a look, if you're going to be doing a lot of this.

A rope is a high performance replacement for Strings. The datastructure, described in detail in "Ropes: an Alternative to Strings", provides asymptotically better performance than both String and StringBuffer for common string modifications like prepend, append, delete, and insert. Like Strings, ropes are immutable and therefore well-suited for use in multi-threaded programming.