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Detecting Screen Orientation and Screen Rotation in Tablet PC Applications

Overview This paper describes how to detect whether a user is viewing a Tablet PC in portrait or landscape orientation and adjust an application accordingly. This article describes ways to detect when a user switches between portrait and landscape orientation on a Tablet PC. These C#, Visual Basic .NET, C++ and Visual Basic version 6.0 descriptions and examples use the Microsoft Tablet PC Platform SDK version 1.5 API. Readers should be familiar with the Microsoft Tablet PC Platform SDK and managed code.

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Publisher	Microsoft Corporation	File Format	HTML
Date Published	April 2003	Downloads	1291
Format	White Papers
Topics	Tablets

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