Every week Laura & Paul bring you the hottest topics on the minds of Microsofties. Here's the latest from this week:Multi-Point Server Announced3 Designs for Windows Phone 7 SeriesIE6 FuneralWindows 7 Commercial Parodyand finally...RikRolling!

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Shawn Wildermuth takes time out to remember the little features in Silverlight 3.  Everyone talks about Pixel Shaders and RIA Services, but who remembers to talk about the simple but important CaretBrush?

Rafe Kemmis picked up an old familiar book called Flash Math Creativity and has decided to exercise his animation skills by rewriting them in Silverlight.  I look forward to seeing his results from some of the more complex examples in the book.

In accordance with Facebook announcing their new Open Stream API, Microsoft previewed a WPF and Silverlight applications visualizing the freshly made available data. Rafe Needleman captured a good video of the Silverlight and WPF Facebook Open Stream API demos.

The upcoming arrival of Windows 7 brings new opportunities for developers and their applications. Tim Sneath has posted a Windows 7 guide covering Application Compatibility and toolkits that enable you to take advantage of new features in Windows 7 like Multi-touch, Taskbar, Sensors and…

After spending some time reading recommended reading on Behaviors, Mike Taulty records his experiences creating a Drag and Drop Behavior combination.

IDV Solutions announced their Visual Fusion product today which integrates SharePoint data with Virtual Earth and Silverlight. Other SharePoint controls are available from ComponentOne, who is offering a DataGrid, Charts and Maps.  Perpetuum Software is offering Report Sharp Shooter…

Simon Guest walks through the features and expected workflow of SketchFlow, a prototyping tool for WPF or Silverlight applications originally shown at MIX09.

Ivo Manolov announces that the WPF team has shipped a toolkit for building a MVVM based application.  The toolkit is available for download on the “WPF Futures”  codeplex site.