Enumerate through a subset of a Collection in C#?

Question

Is there a good way to enumerate through only a subset of a Collection in C#? That is, I have a collection of a large number of objects (say, 1000), but I\'d like to enumerate

Answer 1

Adapting Jarad's code once again, this extention method will get you a subset that is defined by item, not index.

    //! Get subset of collection between \a start and \a end, inclusive
    //! Usage
    //! \code
    //! using ExtensionMethods;
    //! ...
    //! var subset = MyList.GetRange(firstItem, secondItem);
    //! \endcode
class ExtensionMethods
{
    public static IEnumerable GetRange(this IEnumerable source, T start, T end)
    {
#if DEBUG
        if (source.ToList().IndexOf(start) > source.ToList().IndexOf(end))
            throw new ArgumentException("Start must be earlier in the enumerable than end, or both must be the same");
#endif
        yield return start;

        if (start.Equals(end))
            yield break;                                                    //start == end, so we are finished here

        using (var e = source.GetEnumerator())
        { 
            while (e.MoveNext() && !e.Current.Equals(start));               //skip until start                
            while (!e.Current.Equals(end) && e.MoveNext())                  //return items between start and end
                yield return e.Current;
        }
    }
}