VB.NET SSH Tunneling

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Hey all,

I think my request is simple, but I have done some research out there and nothing seems to be answering it for me other than very ugly solutions to my problem.

I have a hosted MySQL database with a hosting company in which I am a reseller of there service. This means I have more privileges than most subscribers. I can use SSH tunneling for my connection to the databases on there and I currently do using Premiumsoft's NaviCat. However, like NaviCat, I would like to build in the SSH Tunnel connection into the application. I have achieved this prior by using PuTTY/Plink but it was an ugly solution. Basically, I had to start up Plink with the appropriate arguments like a nested console application. Then when closing the my application I had to close the connection. This caused issues every now and it just wasn't clean.

So, my ask is: Is there any FREE SSH tunneling libraries out there that could be referenced in VB.NET (Visual Studio 2012) that can used to establish a secure connection to the database. So far in my search I have seen many examples of stuff that doesn't work. Nothing other than Manual PuTTY or automated Plink seems to work in the VB.NET world only unless you are willing to pay $300 per seat license.

I am basically setting up a desktop application to manage data that I do not want any other web user to be able to do. The security on the site is set up to be yes or no, not role based and I do not want to change the website.

Any Ideas?