I am cross referencing this to Visual Studio 2008 since I first ran into this trying to connect to the remote website. I got yelled at:

When I looked I found that it had been installed and even approved to run:

So I right clicked on the Website, choose All Tasks, and Configure Server Extensions 2002

I got yelled at, AGAIN!

This looked a LOT more serious. But luckily some web browsing gave me an hint. What you did not see was that the Microsoft Sharepoint Adminstration site was stopped.

So I started it up, and voila!

Here is a snippet I created that I like to use when defining properties for webparts. Have fun with it...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<CodeSnippets xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">
   <CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">
      <Header>
         <Title>Sharepoint WebPart Property</Title>
         <Shortcut>wpprop</Shortcut>
         <Description>Code snippet for Sharepoint Webpart Property.</Description>
         <Author>Matthew Mcknight</Author>
         <SnippetTypes>
            <SnippetType>Expansion</SnippetType>
         </SnippetTypes>
      </Header>
      <Snippet>
         <Declarations>
            <Literal>
               <ID>type</ID>
               <ToolTip>Property type</ToolTip>
               <Default>string</Default>
            </Literal>
            <Literal>
               <ID>property</ID>
               <ToolTip>Property name</ToolTip>
               <Default>MyProperty</Default>
            </Literal>
            <Literal>
               <ID>field</ID>
               <ToolTip>The variable backing this property</ToolTip>
               <Default>_myProperty</Default>
            </Literal>
            <Literal>
               <ID>personalizable</ID>
               <Type>System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.PersonalizationScope</Type>
               <ToolTip>Personalization Level for this webpart?</ToolTip>
               <Default>PersonalizationScope.Shared</Default>
            </Literal>           
            <Literal>
               <ID>browsable</ID>
               <Type>System.Boolean</Type>
               <ToolTip>Is this webpart browsable?</ToolTip>
               <Default>true</Default>
            </Literal>           
     <Literal>
               <ID>description</ID>
               <ToolTip>The description for this webpart.</ToolTip>
               <Default>My Description</Default>
            </Literal>
            <Literal>
               <ID>defaultValue</ID>
               <ToolTip>The default value for this property.</ToolTip>
               <Default></Default>
            </Literal>
     <Literal>
               <ID>category</ID>
               <ToolTip>The category to display for this webpart in the webpart editor.</ToolTip>
               <Default>My Category</Default>
            </Literal>
     <Literal>
               <ID>friendlyName</ID>
               <ToolTip>The friendly name to display for this webpart.</ToolTip>
               <Default>My Friendly Name</Default>
            </Literal>
         </Declarations>
         <Code Language="csharp"><![CDATA[
private $type$ $property$;

[Personalizable($personalizable$)]
[WebBrowsable($browsable$)]
[Description("$description$")]
[DefaultValue("$defaultValue$")]
[Category("$category$")]
[FriendlyName("$friendlyName$")]
public $type$ $property$
{
 get { return $field$; }
 set { $field$ = value; }
}
$end$]]>
         </Code>
      </Snippet>
   </CodeSnippet>
</CodeSnippets>