Why, why, why? Is it not possible that someone would want to parse a relative uri that has a querystring? M$, why do you impose these needless limits? Ok, so lets say we have the following UriTemplate:

/books/?language={language}

And you want to pick this uri apart and grab the querystring portion. You can load it into a Uri as relative but the Query and Segments properties will not be accessible and you will get the following exception: "This operation is not supported for a relative URI." There is a simple workaround but I really don't think we should have to do this. Basically you pass in a dummy base uri along with your relative one and this does the trick:

Uri myUri = new Uri(new Uri("dummy:"), "/books/?language={language}");
System.Diagnostics.Debug.Print(myUri.Query);

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