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This repo contains driver samples prepared for use with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Windows Driver Kit (WDK). It contains both Universal Windows Driver and desktop-only driver samples.
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Inconsistency between official MS driver development documentation and these examples (biometric) #1181

Closed shimaowo closed 1 week ago

shimaowo commented 5 months ago

The biometric driver sample was removed in February in #1111 (related to #828), apparently for being outdated. However, the Microsoft guide for writing a biometric driver, which claims to be recent as of last March, references this sample many times.

I submitted feedback on that page, but I assume it won't be seen. I'm not really sure how or where to report these inconsistencies where teams clearly didn't communicate, but this makes developing such a driver a bit unpleasant when the samples claim the documented method is obsolete, but also don't provide any alternatives.

tedhudek commented 4 months ago

Hi @shimaowo, thank you for the feedback. Please see the Note that we just added to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/biometric/sample-biometric-driver.