Need Some Advice

Hi ive been learning c++ for awhile now but its confusing me what libraries i should use i want to be able to make games and software that uses the internet, i have visual studio 2008. I want to write windows software, what good libraries should i get?

is directx9 a good games library ?
WINSOCK2 is that any good for socket programming?
Should i get a different IDE?

id like to have good libraries so i can learn them and stick with them at the minute im swapping and changing from one thing to the next i feel as if im getting nowhere :( some help would b great.. Please advise me lol

Many thanks!!
here is a good library for game making http://gdk.thegamecreators.com/?f=downloads
Hey thanks for that, that library seems to have been made using directx so i think ill go with directx and winsock2 even tho i cant get any libraries working keep getting errors like

1>c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v6.0a\include\winnt.h(236) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'PVOID64'


i get errors like that from when i run a directx 9 and winsock program anyone any ideas?
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