c# winform background worker and progress bar

Question

I am trying to get the progress bar to increment using a BG Worker. I am currently using 2 BG workers, one to add data into a DB and one for the progress bar. The DB upload is working fine, yet the progress bar is not.

Code:

BackgroundWorker bg2 = new BackgroundWorker();
bg2.DoWork +=new DoWorkEventHandler(bg2_DoWork);
bg2.RunWorkerAsync();

void bg2_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
    {

        while (bg1.IsBusy)
            DrawWellPlate.pbar.Increment(1)
    }

bg1 that it refers to is the database upload thread and pbar is clearly the progress bar.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You should do something like this where totalProgress will be shown in progressBar, doWork is executed not in UI thread, that is the purpose of BackgroundWorker

BackgroundWorker bg2 = new BackgroundWorker();
bg2.DoWork +=new DoWorkEventHandler(bg2_DoWork);
.ProgressChanged += new ProgressChangedEventHandler(bg2_ProgressChanged)
bg2.RunWorkerAsync();

void bg2_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
    {

        while (bg1.IsBusy)
            worker.ReportProgress(totalProgress);
    }
private void bg2_ProgressChanged(object sender,
            ProgressChangedEventArgs e)
        {
            DrawWellPlate.pbar.Value = e.ProgressPercentage;
        }

see this for more details