Win32 Connectors and Named Pipes

Question

Is it possible to use sockets on Win32 and not have the firewall block the port you are using?

On Unix, you can use IF_UNIXinstead IF_INET(i.e. named pipes instead of sockets ). Right now on Windows, you can open a socket using different protocols :

socket(AF_INET,    SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_TCP);     //open an IPv4 socket
socket(AF_BTH,     SOCK_RAW, BTHPROTO_RFCOMM); //open a Bluetooth socket
socket(AF_NETBIOS, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_TCP);     //open an IPX/SPX socket
socket(AF_INET6,   SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_TCP);     //open an IPv6 socket

Is there a way to open a named socket channel? For example. (hypothetical construction)

socket(AF_NAMEDPIPE, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_TCP);   //open a named pipe socket

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