Greetings!
After upgrading to 2016 Q1, we've encountered a bug while appending text to radtextboxcontrol before setting anything to .Text property of it.
For example:
// Not working (exception is that 'startPosition' value cannot be null)
this.radTextBoxControl1.AppendText(String.Format("{0}", formattedString));
// Works
this.radTextBoxControl1.Text = " "; // maybe some initialisation goes here or smth...
this.radTextBoxControl1.AppendText(String.Format("{0}", formattedString));