I need to 2 levels of inheritance and abstraction in master-child relationship

Question

Let\'s assume I have a business case I want to use some model to represent a master-child structure. And there will be certain classes to inherit from both the master class and

Answer 1

You may get somewhere with generics:

public abstract class BaseMaster where TCHild : BaseChild
{
    // this probably doesn't have to be 'abstract' anymore
    public abstract ReadOnlyCollection Children { get; }
}

public class FirstRealMaster : BaseMaster
{
}

But we don't know enough about the relation between Master and Child classes to be sure.