After my last post on this topic Alan Smith left a comment on my blog.

His comment was a good point and is worthy republishing here, to round out the topic.

Here it is verbatim:

"I'd agree with you there that quite a few .net ppl will try to solve problems with C#, rather than learning the correct way to solve things in BizTalk. I spent my first few weeks thinking "I can do this in 2 hours in C#, why does it take me