Biometric Devices Design Guide
This section describes how to write user-mode drivers that work with the Windows Biometric Driver Interface (WBDI). WBDI is the driver interface of the Windows Biometric Framework (WBF). WBF ships with Windows 7 and later versions of the Windows operating system.
In this section
- Getting Started with Biometric Drivers
- Roadmap for Developing Biometric Drivers
- Sample Biometric Driver
- Supporting Biometric IOCTL Calling Sequence
- Using WinUSB in a WBDI Driver
- Installing a Biometric Driver
- Managing Queues in a WBDI Driver
- Creating a Device Interface for a WBDI Driver
- Supporting Secure Channels in WBDI Drivers
- Using WBDI with Non-PnP Devices or Proprietary Stacks
- Hardware Considerations for Biometric Drivers
- Ranking a Biometric Driver on Windows Update
- Testing Biometric Drivers
- Signing WBDI Drivers
- Windows Hello: Steps to Submit a Fingerprint Driver
- Custom Control Codes
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