Backgroundworker won't report progress

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 progress of the task.

This is what i have:

BackgroundWorker _bgwLoadClients;

_bgwLoadClients = new BackgroundWorker();
_bgwLoadClients.WorkerReportsProgress = true;
_bgwLoadClients.DoWork += new DoWorkEventHandler(_bgwLoadClients_DoWork);
_bgwLoadClients.RunWorkerCompleted += new RunWorkerCompletedEventHandler(_bgwLoadClients_RunWorkerCompleted);
_bgwLoadClients.ProgressChanged += new ProgressChangedEventHandler(_bgwLoadClients_ProgressChanged);
_bgwLoadClients.RunWorkerAsync(parms);

private void _bgwLoadClients_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
{
    DataTable dt = getdate();
    e.Result = dt;
}

void _bgwLoadClients_ProgressChanged(object sender, ProgressChangedEventArgs e)
{
    progressBar1.Value = e.ProgressPercentage;
}

I am doing this in WPF, but i guess it won't make a difference.

Thanks in advance