I recently built a SharePoint feature to provision custom master pages and page layouts for a client. Overall the solution worked pretty well until one day, while making changes to one of the page layouts, I saw the following error: Only Content controls...

In most web content management projects based on SharePoint the Content Query Web Part is used for aggregating content. Out of the box it have a few styles, but seems a little limited. With a little tweaking you can display the information you want in...