'Change the fill symbol used to render a polygon layer

'The first sample gets a symbol from the style gallery

'the second sample creates a new fill symbol
Sub RenderLayer()
Dim pDoc As IMxDocument
Dim pLayer As IGeoFeatureLayer
Dim pRend As ISimpleRenderer
Dim pFillSym As IFillSymbol
'Get the first layer in the map
Set pDoc = ThisDocument
Set pLayer = pDoc.FocusMap.Layer(0)
'Get the renderer for the layer
'this sample assumes you are using a simple renderer
'not something like a unique value renderer
Set pRend = pLayer.Renderer
'Get a fill symbol from the style gallery
Dim pStyleGall As IStyleGallery
Dim pStyleGallItem As IStyleGalleryItem
Dim pEnumStyle As IEnumStyleGalleryItem
'Loop through the fill symbols and find one named yellow
Set pStyleGall = pDoc.StyleGallery
Set pEnumStyle = pStyleGall.Items("Fill Symbols", "esri.style", "")
pEnumStyle.Reset
Set pStyleGallItem = pEnumStyle.Next
Do Until pStyleGallItem Is Nothing
If pStyleGallItem.Name = "Yellow" Then
Set pFillSym = pStyleGallItem.Item
Exit Do
End If
Set pStyleGallItem = pEnumStyle.Next
Loop
'Apply the new color and refresh
Set pRend.Symbol = pFillSym
pDoc.UpdateContents
pDoc.ActiveView.Refresh
End Sub
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RenderLayer2()
pDoc As IMxDocument
pLayer As IGeoFeatureLayer
pRend As ISimpleRenderer
pFillSym As IFillSymbol
pColor As IRgbColor

'Get the first layer in the map

Set pDoc = ThisDocument
Set pLayer = pDoc.FocusMap.Layer(0)
'Get the renderer
Set pRend = pLayer.Renderer
'Create a new fill symbol
Set pFillSym = New SimpleFillSymbol
Set pColor = New RgbColor

pColor.Red = 255
pFillSym.Color = pColor
'Apply the new color and refresh
Set pRend.Symbol = pFillSym
pDoc.UpdateContents
pDoc.ActiveView.Refresh
End Sub