With Windows Phone being a handheld device, the user has all the freedom to turn the device upside down or rotate the device to the left or right. The behavior of turning the phone upside down or rotating it to the left or right is technically termed as orientation in Windows Phone development. As a Windows Phone application developer, you are supposed to take care of the orientation effects in the app you develop. You need to decide whether you would like your app to react to the orientation changes or not. To provide a better user experience, it is a best practice to include the orientation aspect while designing the app.
Windows Phone supports three possible orientations on the device. They are:
Portrait
Landscape (left)
Landscape (right)
Portrait orientation is nothing but the vertical positioning of the content, that is, when the phone is held straight up. In the portrait orientation, the screen resolution is 480 x 800 px. 480 x 800 px is a standard screen...