I'm in a Software Design Review around Biztalk Services and Web Programability. It's being announced to us a s a small (about 15) group... and we're allowed to blog it...

So I'll be blogging live Updating this post....

Web Programability with Steve Maine

How can we program against the web.
How do we wite programs such that they can be programmed as part of the web.

Stuff that shipped already

Stuff shipping in Orcas

Stuff that is more experimental (some not blogable)

Talking about processes to get an abstraction over URIs... effectivly URI templates per Joe Gregorio.
This is available in System.UriTemplate (Orcas bits)...

Two directional abiliy to map name value pairs into and out of structured URLs.

Still need to use HTTP andlers to process tis sort of stuff in IE