LINQ - Sequence contains no elements

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Today I got an exception saying "Sequence contains no elements " when using LINQ against Windows Azure tables. I did a quick search and found that it is due to that I used First<> instead of FirstOrDefault<> in my code. The below link explains the issue.

https://blog.dreamlabsolutions.com/post/2008/10/28/LINQ-Sequence-contains-no-elements.aspx

btw, I expected that First<> returns null instead of throwing exception.