I knew RoboHelp as one of the Macromedia applications that everyone thought was going to go away. But recently I got a demo of the new version which is being announced today and it was a really cool application.

What was most interesting/exciting for me was how it handled help documents for Flash applications. If any of you are doing large scale Flex or Flash apps, and you need to implement a help system, RoboHelp does all the hard work for you.

I hadn’t given a lot of thought to documentation before, but after the demo I found myself impressed and feeling inadequate about my previous applications. I’ve done a terrible job at the “help” section and I really wish we could have used this for some of our online simluations while I was developing at Wharton. It would have been an excellent fit. It seems like a solid application for help documentation of any kind and I suggest that you RIA developers give it a look and see if it fits your needs.

Update: Just saw the press release which has some more (corporate) info.
[tags]RoboHelp, Documentation, Rich Internet Applications[/tags]

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