Matthew MacDonald Books

Have You Seen Mikki Olsen? is a charming tale all about a little penguin who loses his favourite teddy, only to find it attached to his behind!

Microsoft’s Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides the foundation for building applications and high-quality user experiences for the Windows operating system. It blends the application user interface, documents, and media content, while exploiting the full power of your computer’s operating system. Its functionality extends to the support for tablet PCs and other forms of input device, and provides a more modern imaging and printing pipeline, accessibility and user interface automation infrastructure, data-driven user interface and visualization, and integration points for weaving the application experience into the Windows shell. This book shows you how WPF really works. It provides you with the no-nonsense, practical advice that you need in order to build high-quality WPF applications quickly and easily. Having built a firm foundation, it goes on to explore more advanced aspects of WPF and how they relate to the others elements of the .NET 4.0 platform and associated technologies such as Silverlight.

Pro WPF 4.5 in C# provides a thorough, authoritative guide to WPF. Packed with no-nonsense examples and practical advice you'll learn everything you need to know in order to use WPF in a professional setting

Explains how to use Silverlight to create flexible, interactive applications for the Web, with coverage of the features and tools of Silverlight, as well as animation, 2D drawing, files and XML, Web Services, HTML interaction, and ASP.NET.

A guide to WordPress provides bloggers with everything they need to know to build, design, manage, and customize their blogs, including step-by-step coverage of everything from installation and security to publishing and customization, as well as themes,widgets, and plug-ins.

Provides information on creating a Web site, covering such topics as HTML, style sheets, frames, graphics, attracting visitors, JavaScript, and blogs.

Bestselling author MacDonald shows readers how to best use HTML5's new features to create an effective Web experience for visitors.

Offering a thorough introduction to ASP.NET, this book covers the latest features and best practices for developing web applications. It provides clear explanations, practical examples, and hands-on exercises, making it suitable for both beginners and those looking to enhance their skills. Readers will gain insights into the framework's architecture, tools, and techniques, ensuring they are well-equipped to create robust and scalable applications. Perfect for anyone eager to dive into modern web development.

Microsoft Excel continues to grow in power, sophistication, and capability, but one thing that has changed very little since the early '90s is its user interface. The once-simple toolbar has been packed with so many features over the years that few users know where to find them all. Microsoft has addressed this problem in Excel 2007 by radically redesigning the user interface with a tabbed toolbar that makes every feature easy to locate and use. Unfortunately, Microsoft's documentation is as scant as ever, so even if users can find advanced features, they probably won't know what to do with them. Excel 2007: The Missing Manual covers the entire gamut of how to build spreadsheets, add and format information, print reports, create charts and graphics, and use basic formulas and functions. Like its siblings in the Missing Manual series, this book crackles with a fine sense of humor and refreshing objectivity about its subject, guiding readers through the new Excel with clear explanations, step-by-step instructions, lots of illustrations, and friendly, time-saving advice. It's a perfect primer for small businesses with no techie to turn to, as well as those who want to organize household and office information.

MacDonald goes beyond most other .NET books and shows how to design state-of-the-art application interfaces, concentrating on the C# language.