The Flare authoring tool is widely perceived as the successor to RoboHelp. While it is far from a RoboHelp clone, Flare was developed mostly by developers who worked on RoboHelp. Mike Hamilton has been in the middle of this story from the beginning. He knows who did what when, and he's going to give us names and dates -- to put to rest any rumors we might have heard.

Flare uses XML as its internal format, but help authors don't need to know about or work directly with XML. Mike will show us how to use Flare to build help systems.