Loading a ConfigurationSection with a required child ConfigurationElement with .Net configuration framework

I have a console application that is trying to load a CustomConfigurationSection from a web.config file.

The custom configuration section has a custom configuration element that is required. This means that when I load the config section, I expect to see an exception if that config element is not present in the config. The problem is that the .NET framework seems to be completely ignoring the isRequired attribute. So when I load the config section, I just creates an instance of the custom configuration element and sets it on the config section.

My question is, why is this happening? I want the GetSection() method to fire a ConfigurationErrors exception since a required element is missing from the configuration.

Here is how my config section looks.

public class MyConfigSection : ConfigurationSection
{
    [ConfigurationProperty("MyConfigElement", IsRequired = true)]
    public MyConfigElement MyElement
    {
        get { return (MyConfigElement) this["MyConfigElement"]; }
    }
}
public class MyConfigElement : ConfigurationElement
{
    [ConfigurationProperty("MyAttribute", IsRequired = true)]
    public string MyAttribute
    {
        get { return this["MyAttribute"].ToString(); }
    }
}

Here is how I load the config section.

   class Program
    {
        public static Configuration OpenConfigFile(string configPath)
        {
            var configFile = new FileInfo(configPath);
            var vdm = new VirtualDirectoryMapping(configFile.DirectoryName, true, configFile.Name);
            var wcfm = new WebConfigurationFileMap();
            wcfm.VirtualDirectories.Add("/", vdm);
            return WebConfigurationManager.OpenMappedWebConfiguration(wcfm, "/");
        }

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            try{
                string path = @"C:\Users\vrybak\Desktop\Web.config";

                var configManager = OpenConfigFile(path);
                var c