Enable orientation in Windows Phone 8.0 application - windows-phone-8

Question

I am new to windows phone application development. I am developing application for windows 8.0. I cannot find file [Package.appxmanifest] in the project.
Is there a setting in application that turns on orientation? Because when I rotate my phone my controls stay same in potrait mode.
Can any one guide me please?

Answer 1

Package.appxmanifest is a WP8.1 runtime thing. For WP 8.0, it's AppManifest and WMAppManifest. You can find it under Properties under the project Solution.
As for orientation, click your MainPage.xaml and select your <phone:PhoneApplicationPage> tag. Under Common, you can change your Orientations.
And here's a Quick Start Guide in handling Orientation Changes: Quickstart: Screen orientation for Windows Phone 8

Answer 2

In your designer page there will be a property named SupportedOrientations. You can change that to Portrait, Landscape or PortraitOrLandscape for both.
While developing if you want to change the orientation use Orientation property.
<phone:PhoneApplicationPage
x:Class="TemplateSwitcher.MainPage"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:phone="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Controls;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"
xmlns:shell="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Shell;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
mc:Ignorable="d"
FontFamily="{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilyNormal}"
FontSize="{StaticResource PhoneFontSizeNormal}"
Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneForegroundBrush}"
SupportedOrientations="Portrait" Orientation="Portrait"
shell:SystemTray.IsVisible="True">