Winsock only for network programming?

[Dval]

Hi guys,

Just a quick question. Is Winsock the only library available for C++ coders to use for network programming on the windows platform? If there are other options are they commercially viable? I'm going to start learning network coding and am just wondering if Winsock is the only library I should focus on.

Thanks,
D

[Albatross]

Is there an alternative to the Windows Operating System's APIs? Always. *wink*

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_43_0/doc/html/boost_asio.html
There's almost certainly another one...

-Albatross