Backgroundworker won't report progress

Question

I have a background worker running a long database task. i want to show the progress bar while the task is running. Somehow the background worker won\'t report the progres

Answer 1

You need to break your DoWork method down into reportable progress and then call ReportProgress.

Take for example the following:

private void Something_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e) 
{
    // If possible, establish how much there is to do
    int totalSteps = EstablishWorkload();

    for ( int i=0; i

If your work can't be predetermined, try adding your own percentages:

private void Something_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e) 
{
    // some work

    (sender as BackgroundWorker).ReportProgress(25, null);

    // some work

    (sender as BackgroundWorker).ReportProgress(50, null);

    // some work

    (sender as BackgroundWorker).ReportProgress(60, null);

    // some work

    (sender as BackgroundWorker).ReportProgress(99, null);
}