Failed to load aspnetcorev2.dll hosting ASP.NET Core 2.2 on IIS7

Question

I am struggling with deploying an ASP.NET Core 2.2 site to Windows 7 SP1 IIS7.5.

The server has dotnet-hosting-2.2.1-win installed. Following are the Programs and Featur

Answer 1

After a lot of digging it turned out that the installer for the hosting bundle failed to download Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable. That is why all websites stopped working. I installed it manually and resintalled the hosting bundle and everything worked.