HTTP Error 502.5 - Process Failure after ASP.NET Core Publish

I received the following error after trying to publish an ASP.NET core site after upgrading my solution to Visual Studio 2017 and ASP.NET Core 1.1.

HTTP Error 502.5 - Process Failure after ASP.NET Core Publish

The logs from my site indicated a lot of BadImageException's which usually means you have x86 trying to call a x64 assembly or vice versa. In fact, when I went into my csproj file I could see I was targeting win7-x86 for my RID (Runtime Identifier) but had AnyCPU choosen. When I changed the target to x86 my publish/site began working again. Here is more info on this common exception and more in regards to ASP.Net Core publishing:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/publishing/iis#common-errors

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