When working with the Windows Universal App , it may be necessary for the developers sometimes to check if the target device is phone or windows 8 tablet and write the platform dependent code based on the criteria.
How to Detect the Current device Platform in Windows Universal App ?
You can use the #ifdef directives WINDOWS_APP and WINDOWS_PHONE_APP for this scenario.
Eg :
#if WINDOWS_PHONE_APP // Its a Windows Phone app #endif #if WINDOWS_APP // Its a Windows 8 app #endif