Microsoft Winsock Reference - The reference for Winsock. Click on
"functions" to see documentation on Winsock functions. There is far more
detail here than you really need.
I mostly use the cl command line compiler to build my programs for Windows.
If you want to use the Microsoft Visual IDE for sockets programming, see
here for helpful instructions. The point here is that you are to build a
console application and include wsock32.dll in the Project Settings / Object-library
modules list.
Network+ training videos
If you are interested in earning the CompTIA Network+ certification, I highly
recommend Professor Messer's free training videos, find them
here.