If you are a WPDev and building Windows Phone app and/or game that uses primary or secondary (front facing camera), you might need to check whether the device supports either or both of them. Windows Phone SDK provides APIs to check for supported camera type.

In this blog post, we will discuss about this API and learn how to know whether the phone supports either or both of those camera types.

Microsoft released the RTM version of Visual Studio 2013 in October 2013 and after that, this is the first release of an update for it named “Visual Studio 2013 Update 1”. This version includes a set of fixes for the issues and improvements requested by the users.

Here I am sharing the download links for you to download and install the update before it pops up in the Visual Studio update notification area.