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Dan Toft

Dan Toft

Microsoft 365 MVP, Developer & Enthusiast

Herning, Denmark

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Meet Dan from Denmark 🇩🇰 - A Microsoft 365 developer and consultant 🧑‍💻 - with a huge passion for community 🙌

Dan has “only” been working with Microsoft technologies since 2018 📅 - making him a “cloud native” developer ☁️

When he started working with Microsoft 365, he instantly fell in love with the platform 🎉 - and especially how fast and easy it is to create real world value for end users 🚀 - and that is what he is passionate about sharing with others 🙌

When he’s not working the next community sample 🎉, blog post ✍️ or at work 🥱 - he loves to throw plastic in nature 🌳 - quite literally, Dan loves to play Disc golf 🥏

#SharingIsCaring 🙌

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Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Building moderns SPFx solutions using React Hooks

In this session, we'll explore the rise in popularity of React Hooks and why they are now a fundamental part of many modern React libraries, including Fluent UI. We will dive into the benefits of using Hooks and demonstrate how to implement functional components in SharePoint Framework (SPFx), despite Microsoft continuing to generate SPFx projects with class components.

We will cover:
- The process of converting SPFx solutions to functional components
- The advantages and disadvantages of using functional components
- A deep dive into some of the default Hooks, including state and lifecycle hooks.

By the end of the session, you'll have a solid understanding of how to utilize functional components and Hooks in your upcoming SPFx projects.

Leveraging open source tool to maximise your investments in M365

Do you struggle to manage your M365 environment?

In this interactive session M365 MVPs Dan Toft and Kasper Larsen will take you on a tour of the latest open source community tools to get your environment up to speed! – from using “easyGovernance” to validate that your tenant settings match the latest security guidelines, to “PnP PowerShell” to easily script your way out of large tasks like bulk renaming or deleting SharePoint documents, or identifying inactive or over-permissioned guest accounts, lastly they’ll cover “PnP Modern Search”, and demonstrate how to take your users Microsoft 365 search experience into the 20th century.

Viva Connections & SharePoint Framework Community call

A presentation of an SPFx sample I built to help people learn to use and test CAML queries, and demonstrating the usefulness of the useContext Hook when building SPFx solutions using PnPjs

January 2023

Viva Connections & SharePoint Framework Community call

I did a 13 minute presentation on what remote event receivers are, when they make sense to use compared to other tools like Power Automate

June 2021

Dan Toft

Microsoft 365 MVP, Developer & Enthusiast

Herning, Denmark

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