ILayerDescription.SelectionSymbol

The following sample code shows how to change the symbol of of a point layer's selected feature to a red diamond. It assumes that you already have a valid MapServer and MapDescription object, and that you are not working with a server context. However, if you are developing an ArcGIS Server application using a server context, you should not use New to create local ArcObjects, but you should always create objects within the server by calling CreateObject on IServerContext.

 

IMapServer mapServer;
IMapDescription mapDesc;

int layerID = 0;
string strMapName = mapDesc.Name;

// Select a feature
IQueryFilter filter = new QueryFilterClass();
filter.WhereClause = "Name = 'Halifax'";
IFIDSet FIDSet = mapServer.QueryFeatureIDs(strMapName, layerID, filter);

// Set color
IRgbColor color = new RgbColorClass();
color.Red = 255;

// Create new marker symbol
ISimpleMarkerSymbol markerSymbol = new SimpleMarkerSymbolClass();
markerSymbol.Size = 15;
markerSymbol.Color = color;
markerSymbol.Style = esriSimpleMarkerStyle.esriSMSDiamond;

// Hilite selected feature
ILayerDescription layerDesc = mapDesc.LayerDescriptions.get_Element(layerID);
layerDesc.SelectionFeatures = FIDSet;
layerDesc.SetSelectionSymbol = true;
layerDesc.SelectionSymbol = (ISymbol)markerSymbol;