C# Code Reuse with a Traits Class

C# generic classes are quite useful for abstracting out type details until later use, but there is no mechanism in C# that allows non-type details to be abstracted in a similar manner. Non-type details can be overridden for instance members, but these won't be accessible to static members and during construction might not be reliable. This pattern facilitates providing the non-type details to the generic abstract base class at the time it is inherited into a concrete class, in some cases leaving nothing to be implemented in the derived class.