Put a breakpoint, or a Debug. Print or System.Windows.Forms. Messagebox just before bgwTimer.
ReportProgress(i) to verify that you're actually entering the while loop.
It's not raising the event because the value of I is always zero, which is helpfully undocumented but I found out the same thing when building a background worker a while back.
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