>>The page FindControl() method is used to find a specific control on the page. This is related to the ID propert of the control. Would it be a way to find a control by type? Basically, I would like to know if a specific control type exists on the page. I was wondering that instead of looping thru the entire collection that there could be a method to call.
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>From the top of my head the answer is NO, you have to loop through control collection to check for the type. I'll google to make sure.

Don't think there is a separate method
Checking control's collection