Any other then...

The Ronald Regan Presidential Library?

It depends on what you want to do, and where you want to do it. I'm afraid you'll have to give a little more information about requirements before anything can be answered in more detail.

Multiplayer games

The answer is yes. However, to find a specific answer as to which library to use, you need to be a lot more specific. Read this.

Also see the Multiplayer and Network Programming Forum FAQ, question 8 in particular.

Is winsock Capable of doing MMO work thowe?

Every single MMO that runs on Windows is using WinSock for communication.

Ummm.... how about looking at the list?

http://wiki.gamedev.net/index.php/Libraries#Networking

Cheers
Dark Sylinc

There's also a nice list in the Forum FAQ. However, we can't even start answering questions about what library from that list would be suitable until we understand what it is you want to do.

Winsock is how you do networking on windows. All other libraries are just wrappers for winsock.

Why are you opposed to using winsock?

Winsock is not so bad IMO. If use use a wrapper there is more 'potentially' to go wrong, as you have to trust that the programmer of the wrapper has done it right in the first place.

But yes there are plenty of alternatives. Some being Enet, Raknet, HawkNL...
The list goes on.

Enet is hplus0603's baby and he knows his stuff (probably far better than any of us). So, that might be a great option if you really want to avoid Winsock.

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Enet is hplus0603's baby

Actually, I've never used it for real, but I've seen enough other people have success with it that I can recommend it :-)

I'll be using it in a little side-project of mine [grin]

I'll probably write some sort of LAN discovery for it though.