Today I experienced what appears to be a small WSSF gotcha :) If you have a Data Contract which has a Data Member called Value (for example contract is ParameterInfo, so having a member called Value might make sense), the code that gets generated by WSSF looks like so: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; ......