WindowsPhone 8.0 vs WindowsPhone 8.1:New ways for detecting Page Orientations on Phone(C#-XAML)

Introduction:

It is very important that your app looks good and functions perfectly in all orientations .And it is the best way to attract app users,fortunately windows phone can provide best strategies for making our app in all orientations ,but in some times we may need to  detect page orientations(portrait up, portrait down, landscape left, landscape right) and dynamically change the our UI design.However previously in windowsphone 8.0 we are detecting page orientations with help of 'OrientationChanged' event,but  in windowsphone store 8.1 this event is directly no longer available,so this post is explained about 'What are the alternative ways for detecting page orientation in wp8.1".In addition this post is explained about "SimpleOrientation" sensor class and how it is useful for detecting page orientations in windows phone store 8.1.

WindowsPhone 8.1 LightSensor :Now the great "LightSensor" class is available for phone (C#-XAML)

Introduction

Again the great start of windowphone 8.1 is now "LightSensor" class available for developers.LightSensor returns the ambient-light reading as a LUX value.An ambient light sensor is one of several types of environmental sensors that allow apps to respond to changes in the user's environment.So You can use the ambient light sensor to detect changes in lighting with an app written in C#.