C# Sockets

I'm just trying to create a socket via the following code but it keeps telling me that I "Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Net.Sockets' to int.

Code:

public void Socket_Create
{
        int sock = new Socket
        (AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp);

        if  (sock == -1)
        {
                //Socket Creation Failed
        }
        //Socket Creation Succesfull
}

what am I doing wrong

 

The socket object is not an integer. It's a full blown object.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.sockets.socket(VS.71).aspx

 

If this were Java you would be checking that the object were not null or that the bytes returned by a stream was correct, I have a feeling its the same for C#