Discovering the Current Orientation
Windows can tell you which of the four possible orientations your window’s screen is in:
→ Landscape (horizontal)
→ Landscape-flipped (horizontal but upside down)
→ Portrait (vertical, with the “bottom” of the screen on the left)
→ Portrait-flipped (vertical, with the “bottom” of the screen on the right)
It’s hard to imagine a valid reason for adjusting a user interface based on flipped versus nonflipped. Nevertheless, if you care about distinguishing between any orientations, you can discover the current orientation via the static Windows.Graphics.Display.DisplayProperties.CurrentOrientation property. This property is a DisplayOrientations enumeration with the four possible values plus None. The reason for ...
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