A neat way of exporting DLL symbols?

[John E]

I know that in MSVC we can export all symbols from a C++ class by using a suitable export specifier applied to the whole class. Or alternatively we can export certain functions selectively by preceding each declaration individually with __declspec(dllexport). But apparently the gcc processor has a neat little pragma for doing this - e.g.

#define MY_EXPORT_SPECIFIER  __attribute__ ((visibility ("default")))

class MY_EXPORT_SPECIFIER MyClass 
{
      // c'tor and d'tor get exported due to MY_EXPORT_SPECIFIER
      MyClass();
      ~MyClass();

private:
      // Private data and functions are not exported
#pragma GCC visibility push(hidden)

      // Declare private data and functions
#pragma pop

public:
      // Publicly declared functions are now exported again 
}

;

Okay, it might seem a bit lazy but I think that's quite neat - much better than the MSVC way of needing to address each function individually. Or is it? Is there any similar little trick we can do in MSVC?