Windows Sockets Network Programming is good if you want raw Win32 API programming in C.<BR><BR>Or you can save yourself $50 and hit any of the 10 bajillion winsock programming sites on Google with ...

Focusing on low-level network programming, this book is just as applicable today as it was when .NET 1.0 was new. And though titled "C#", this book is applicable to any .NET language.

The OP is talking about mucking about in the kernel. Even if that book did talk about kernel programming, Stevens has been dead for 15-20 years so the book would be horribly out of date.