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Meaning of text between square brackets

The class I’m looking at looks like

public class SaveBundle
{
        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute(Form = System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchemaForm.Unqualified)]
        public SaveBundleHeader Header
        {
            get
            {
                return this.headerField;
            }
            set
            {
                this.headerField = value;
            }
        }
}

I don’t know why the [System.Xml.Serialisztion.Xml etc] exists or what it is called to research it further?

Can some one tell me the name of [] and what in this example it’s purpose is?

Answer 1

It’s the attribute XmlElement being set on the property Header

You should be able to look it up as XmlElementAttribute on MSDN. Like here.