Designing WBF Fingerprint Management Applications

Updated: August 23, 2010

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This paper provides design guidance to developers of fingerprint management applications (FMAs) that are compatible with the Windows Biometric Framework (WBF) on Windows 7 systems.

This paper is for anyone who is developing an FMA or implementing sensor-independent enrollment experiences. This paper is also for fingerprint sensor vendors who ship bundled software to run on Windows 7 and for hardware vendors who can benefit from a better understanding of how FMA developers would interact with their sensors.

This information applies for the following operating systems:
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows 7

Included in this paper:

• Windows Biometric Framework Overview

• Fingerprint Management Application Overview

• FMA Design Guidelines

  • FMA Flow

  • FMA Installation

  • FMA Launch

  • Enrollment

  • Credential Management

  • Password Security Considerations

  • Supporting Multiple Fingerprint Sensors

  • Error Handling

See also:

Introduction to the Windows Biometric Framework (WBF)