diff --git a/gio/Application.cs b/gio/Application.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b84122747
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gio/Application.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+//
+// Application.cs
+//
+// Author(s):
+//	Antonius Riha <antoniusriha@gmail.com>
+//
+// Copyright (c) 2014 Antonius Riha
+//
+// This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+// modify it under the terms of version 2 of the Lesser GNU General
+// Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+//
+// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+// Lesser General Public License for more details.
+//
+// You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+// License along with this program; if not, write to the
+// Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+// Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+
+using System;
+using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
+
+namespace GLib
+{
+	public partial class Application
+	{
+		public Application () : this (null, ApplicationFlags.None)
+		{
+		}
+
+		[DllImport (GioGlobal.GioNativeDll, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.Cdecl)]
+		static extern int g_application_run (IntPtr raw, int argc, IntPtr argv);
+
+		public int Run ()
+		{
+			return Run (null, null);
+		}
+
+		public int Run (string program_name, string[] args)
+		{
+			var argc = 0;
+			var argv = IntPtr.Zero;
+			if (program_name != null) {
+				program_name = program_name.Trim ();
+				if (program_name.Length == 0) {
+					throw new ArgumentException ("program_name must not be empty.", "program_name");
+				}
+
+				if (args == null) {
+					throw new ArgumentNullException ("args");
+				}
+
+				var prog_args = new string [args.Length + 1];
+				prog_args [0] = program_name;
+				args.CopyTo (prog_args, 1);
+
+				argc = prog_args.Length;
+				argv = new Argv (prog_args).Handle;
+			}
+
+			return g_application_run (Handle, argc, argv);
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/gio/Gio.metadata b/gio/Gio.metadata
index 6c134cace..22bff54f0 100644
--- a/gio/Gio.metadata
+++ b/gio/Gio.metadata
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@
   <attr path="/api/namespace/object/property[@type='GDbusServerFlags']" name="type">GDBusServerFlags</attr>
   <attr path="/api/namespace/object/property[@type='GIoStream']" name="type">GIOStream</attr>
   <attr path="/api/namespace/object/property[@type='GUnixFdList']" name="type">GUnixFDList</attr>
+  <attr path="/api/namespace/object[@cname='GApplication']/method[@cname='g_application_run']" name="hidden">1</attr>
   <attr path="/api/namespace/object[@cname='GApplication']/signal[@cname='activate']" name="name">Activated</attr>
   <attr path="/api/namespace/object[@cname='GApplication']/signal[@cname='open']" name="name">Opened</attr>
   <attr path="/api/namespace/object[@cname='GDBusAuthObserver']/signal[@cname='authorize-authenticated-peer']" name="name">AuthenticatedPeerAuthorized</attr>
diff --git a/gio/GioGlobal.cs b/gio/GioGlobal.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c01489ce0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gio/GioGlobal.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+//
+// Global.cs
+//
+// Author(s):
+//	Antonius Riha <antoniusriha@gmail.com>
+//
+// Copyright (c) 2014 Antonius Riha
+//
+// This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+// modify it under the terms of version 2 of the Lesser GNU General
+// Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+//
+// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+// Lesser General Public License for more details.
+//
+// You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+// License along with this program; if not, write to the
+// Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+// Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+
+namespace GLib
+{
+	public partial class GioGlobal
+	{
+		internal const string GioNativeDll = "libgio-2.0-0.dll";
+	}
+}
diff --git a/gio/Makefile.am b/gio/Makefile.am
index 86e5be4a9..da2040689 100644
--- a/gio/Makefile.am
+++ b/gio/Makefile.am
@@ -12,10 +12,12 @@ glue_includes = gio/gio.h
 POLICY_VERSIONS=
 
 sources =			\
+	Application.cs		\
 	AppInfoAdapter.cs	\
 	FileAdapter.cs		\
 	FileEnumerator.cs	\
 	FileFactory.cs		\
+	GioGlobal.cs		\
 	GioStream.cs		\
 	IFile.cs
 
diff --git a/gio/gio.csproj b/gio/gio.csproj
index a997dd4e6..7495e21c6 100644
--- a/gio/gio.csproj
+++ b/gio/gio.csproj
@@ -368,6 +368,8 @@
     <Compile Include="generated\GLib\ZlibCompressor.cs" />
     <Compile Include="generated\GLib\ZlibCompressorFormat.cs" />
     <Compile Include="generated\GLib\ZlibDecompressor.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="Application.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="GioGlobal.cs" />
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
     <ProjectReference Include="..\glib\glib.csproj">