All tables and fields within Dynamics 365 for Operations have an ID. The table ID can be used to generate an instance of the table, and we can work with that table as if we had declared it as a type in a method, making our code more generic and more easily extendable.

In this example, we will write a data defaulting framework to demonstrate this. Here, we will create a table and a form that allows us to store defaults for a table, and a class that will set the defaults when a record is created.