I am trying to do the following:

public class foo<T> where T : bar, new
{
  _t = new T();

  private T _t;

}

public abstract class bar
{
  public abstract void someMethod();
  // Some implementation
}

public class baz : bar
{
  public overide someMethod(){//Implementation}
}

And I am attempting to use it as follows:

foo<baz> fooObject = new foo<baz>();

And I get an error explaining that 'T' must be a non-abstract type with a public parameterless constructor in order to use it as parameter 'T' in the generic type or method. I fully understand why this must be, and also understand that I could pass a pre-initialized object of type 'T' in as a constructor argument to avoid having to 'new' it, but is there any way around this? any way to enforce classes that derive from 'bar' to supply parameterless constructors?