Method 'StartWorkflowOnListItem' in type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServices.FabricWorkflowInstanceProvider'

Exception:
Method 'StartWorkflowOnListItem' in type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServices.FabricWorkflowInstanceProvider' from assembly 'Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServices, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' does not have an implementation.

We continuously faced a serious problem in SharePoint 2013 workflow development after installing the hotfix- KB2880998.  This hotfix causes different types of problem in Workflow Manager 1.0. 

Initially we did not identified the root cause. We thought that this was may some server related issue occurred by our last deployment in DEV server. But our Staging server also effected with the same error since we did not deployed our changes to that server. 

Closely observe the ULS logs it seems that this causes by some workflow related dll missing or corrupted. Then investigating the issue based on workflow related issue and found the following link which described the issue clearly

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/b189e4b8-bb9e-4ade-a3d5-cd2e0f90e93f/workflow-not-working-after-installing-service-pack-1-and-patches?forum=sharepointadmin

Solution:

Install the security update 2880963 for SharePoint Server 2013 from the following link will fix the issue.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2880963

Method 'Upgrade' in type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServices.WorkflowServiceApplicationProxy'

Method 'Upgrade' in type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServices.WorkflowServiceApplicationProxy' from assembly 'Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServices, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' does not have an implementation.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. 

Exception Details: System.TypeLoadException: Method 'Upgrade' in type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServices.WorkflowServiceApplicationProxy' from assembly 'Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServices, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' does not have an implementation.

Recently we have installed service pack-1 for SharePoint server  2013. Everything is going well but development team face the above mentioned issue during custom workflow development. 

After investigating we found that Service Pack-1 unstable the Workflow service. Microsoft release a patch to fix the workflow related issue.

Solution:

The workflow upgrade issue required STS and OServer are at the same version. Following update link provide by Microsoft described the issue and fixing.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2880963

Install the following security patch will fix the reported issue.
FYI: No need to restart the SharePoint server 2013 after install the update.

Problem:
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.SharePoint.WorkflowExtensions, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
File name: 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.SharePoint.WorkflowExtensions, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'

Causes/Solutions:
Our team faced this exception for several scenarios in Development environment. We fixed this problem in different combination for different scenarios.

Development Environment:
Windows server 2012
Visual Studio 2012
SharePoint Server 2013,
SharePoint Workflow 2013

Cause-1:
Workflow Manager Tool was not installed.

Solution-1:
Simply installed the workflow manager tools for SharePoint Workflow 2013.

Cause-2:
Workflow Manager Tool was installed but not updated with corresponding Cumulative update.

Solution-2:
As we know SharePoint workflow is managed by Workflow Manager 1.0 and its depends upon Service Bus 1.0. So need to update both version as well.
These two cumulative updates were working for us.

February 2013 Cumulative Update for Service Bus 1.0: KB2799752
February 2013 Cumulative Update for Workflow Manager 1.0: KB2799754

Cause-3:
Office Developer Tools (OfficeDevToolsforVS2012) was not installed on the DEV box.

Solution-3:
Installed the correct version of Office developer tools. We need to installed the OfficeDevToolsforVS2012 version.

Hopefully this will be helpful for other.