Why doesn't the Controls collection provide all of the IEnumerable methods?

Question

I\'m not for sure how the ControlCollection of ASP.Net works, so maybe someone can shed some light on this for me.

I recently discovered the magic that is extension

Answer 1

In addition to the answers provided by Jon Skeet and Dan Tao, you can use query expression syntax by explicitly providing the type.

Control myControl = (from Control control in this.Controls
                    where control.ID == "Some ID"
                    select control).SingleOrDefault();