Why System.Array class implements IList but does not provide Add()

Question

This code:

int[] myArr = { 1, 2 };
myArr.Add(3);

throws the following error on Build:

error CS1061: 'System.Array' does not contain a definition for 'Add' and no extension method 'Add' accepting a first argument of type 'System.Array' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

IList interface has the Add() method, but why the Array does not implement it?

UPDATE: I see from the answers that it DOES implement it explicitly, OK, I get it, thank you, I should better stick to the question:

Why Array does not actually provide Add(), OR, better, why did it have to implement IList in the first place? Instead of implementing IList, it could be another interface (e.g. IArray) which could have ONLY the useful for Array members of IList -e.g. IsFixedSize, IsReadOnly, IndexOf()... just a thought.

Answer 1

Yes, it seems that it should have been a better design if System.Array had implemented IReadOnlyList or alike interface. However, IReadOnlyList<T> appeared in .Net 4.5 while System.Array stays from the initial .Net 1.0. Microsoft, IMHO, did their best and hid Add via explicit interface implementation

http://referencesource.microsoft.com/#mscorlib/system/array.cs,156e066ecc4ccedf

  ...
int IList.Add(Object value)
{
    throw new NotSupportedException(Environment.GetResourceString("NotSupported_FixedSizeCollection"));
} 
  ...

So you can't do

int[] myArr = { 1, 2 };

myArr.Add(3);

but you can insist on using Add (and get NotSupportedException thrown) via

((IList) myArr).Add(3);

Or even

if (!myArr.IsFixedSize) {
  // we have very strange array, let's try adding a value to it
  ((IList) myArr).Add(3);
}