Question

I am looking to call plink from a vb.net application in the background (without showing the black plink cmd screen) is it possible?

Answer 1

Absolutely. See the instructions on dreamincode.net.

Basically, you want to hide the window, and redirect standard in/out.

Dim p as New Process
With p.StartInfo
    .WindowStyle=ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden
    .RedirectStandardOutput=true
    .RedirectStandardInput=true
End With

You can then read and write using p.StandardInput and [p.StandardOutput][3].

You can find more options to set as well in the ProcessStartInfo class.