My adventures started when I was notified that my Windows 7 beta was going to expire in 2 days.  While I continued to work on it I created a "production" development box; I've learned my lesson - don't install Beta on a production box...

With my production box functional I now had to create a Beta box which has all the cool stuff like VS2010, Silverlight 3, C# 4.0, etc.

The problem was with a fresh install you cannot convert Silverlight projects - I needed my PRISM projects (which I won't code without) and was dismayed to find out that everything "appeared" to work but the project never showed up.   The following is the fix!