Why ICollection index does not work when instantiated?

Question

When we declare a parameter as ICollection and instantiated the object as List, why we can't retrive the indexes? i.e.

ICollection<ProductDTO> Products = new List<ProductDTO>(); Products.Add(new ProductDTO(1,"Pen")); Products.Add(new ProductDTO(2,"Notebook"));

Then, this will not work:

ProductDTO product = (ProductDTO)Products[0];

What is the bit I am missing?
[Yes, we can use List as declaration an it can work, but I don't want to declare as list, like:

List<ProductDTO> Products = new List<ProductDTO>();

]

Answer 1

Using LINQ, you can do this:

ProductDTO product = (ProductDTO)Products.ElementAt(0);