Problems using winsock2.h - c

Question

I have been trying for hours now but I can not figure out what the problem is with my simple client and server example using winsock2...
Here are my following two files (I tried to follow an examle from a sys/socket.h implementation and converting to winsock2.h):
Server:
/////////// server.c /////////////
#include<stdio.h>
#include<winsock2.h>
int main() {
WSADATA wsa;
printf("\nInitialising Winsock...");
if (WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2,2),&wsa) != 0)
{
printf("Failed. Error Code : %d",WSAGetLastError());
return 1;
}
printf("Initialised.\n");
char server_message[256] = "You have reached the server!";
int server_socket;
server_socket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
struct sockaddr_in server_address;
server_address.sin_family = AF_INET;
server_address.sin_port = htons(9002);
server_address.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
bind(server_socket, (struct sockaddr *) &server_address, sizeof(server_address));
printf("Listening....\n");
listen(server_socket, 5);
printf("Done listening\n");
int client_socket = accept(server_socket, NULL, NULL);
printf("accepted\n");
send(client_socket, server_message, sizeof(server_message), 0);
closesocket(server_socket);
return 0;
}
Client:
/////////// client.c /////////////
#include<stdio.h>
#include<winsock2.h>
int main() {
WSADATA wsa;
printf("\nInitialising Winsock...");
if (WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2,2),&wsa) != 0)
{
printf("Failed. Error Code : %d",WSAGetLastError());
return 1;
}
printf("Initialised.\n");
int network_socket;
network_socket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
struct sockaddr_in server_address;
server_address.sin_family = AF_INET;
server_address.sin_port = htons(9002);
server_address.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
int connection_status = connect(network_socket, (struct sockaddr *) &server_address, sizeof(server_address));
printf("Connection: %d\n", connection_status);
char server_respons[256];
recv(network_socket, server_respons, sizeof(server_respons), 0);
printf("The server sent the data: %s\n", server_respons);
closesocket(network_socket);
return 0;
}
I start the server first and end up with the following terminal printout:
Initialising Winsock...Initialised.
Listening....
Done listening
Indicating that it has stoped at the accept line, however when I run the client script I get the following:
Initialising Winsock...Initialised.
Connection: -1
The server sent the data:
In other words I get an error at connect() (-1) and the script just runs through without creating any connection? What am I doing wrong? I have tried with multiple different loops to try to connect and accept multiple times but nothing seems to work.