Find a Parent Control Recursively

Useful function, but I don't see any need for an recursion here. I'd solve it like this:

private static Control FindControlParent(Control control, Type type)
        {
            Control ctrlParent = control;
            while((ctrlParent = ctrlParent.Parent) != null)
            {
                if(ctrlParent.GetType() == type)
                {
                    return ctrlParent;
                }
            }
            return null;
        }

and use it like this:

TabControl tc = FindControlParent(control, typeof(TabControl)) as TabControl;