There have been so many times when I needed to create a wizard-like set of Web pages that interrelate, but are broken up into several steps. An example would be the SouthWest airlines Web site that gathers related information on each page: destination, departure, rental car, hotel, etc. ASP.NET in Whidbey will support this type of framework using the FSMLibrary assembly. FSM stands for “Finite State Machine.”
The MSDN article Finite State Machines, Wizards and the Web does a great job of describing the state machine design pattern and how the FSMLibrary in Whidbey will contain all of the functionality you need to create your own applications using this style of interface.
