diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d1d8a3bd4..de261df65 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-09-21  Mike Kestner  <mkestner@novell.com>
+
+	* glib/Object.cs: add ctor (), which invokes CreateNativeObject
+	to allow direct subclasses that do all the registration automatically.
+
 2007-09-21  Mike Kestner  <mkestner@novell.com>
 
 	* generator/*.cs: add DefaultValue prop for obtaining a
diff --git a/glib/Object.cs b/glib/Object.cs
index ac71fca48..32f71c4fa 100644
--- a/glib/Object.cs
+++ b/glib/Object.cs
@@ -269,6 +269,11 @@ namespace GLib {
 			Raw = raw;
 		}
 
+		protected Object ()
+		{
+			CreateNativeObject (new string [0], new GLib.Value [0]);
+		}
+
 		[DllImport("libgobject-2.0-0.dll")]
 		static extern IntPtr g_object_new (IntPtr gtype, IntPtr dummy);