When you develop workflows in your developing environment you simply re-deploy your SharePoint-project to dev-server, and Visual Studio deletes workflow definitions and associations:
But when you have developed workflows and publish them to the production environment, you will meet an issue that workflows are not updating.
3> Deleted file 'http://portal-dev/wfsvc/de109848e7d84f2bb90713227d48d9fe/Workflow.xaml' from server.
3> Deleted file 'http://portal-dev/wfsvc/de109848e7d84f2bb90713227d48d9fe/WorkflowStartAssociation' from server.
But when you have developed workflows and publish them to the production environment, you will meet an issue that workflows are not updating.