How to inspect variables on the fly - visual-studio

Question

I installed the Unity Tools for Visual Studio.
Now I created a variable x which is incremented on every frame at the Update function.
private int x = 0;
void Update()
{
x++;
}
However, if I go to visual studio and press "Attach to unity and play" and then hover over x at x++ then I don't see any value.
If I right click on x then there is no option add watch or similar.
I can only see the value if I set a breakpoint, but then I have to hit continue after every frame.
Is it possible to add a watch and see the value how it is updating live while I play? Otherwise I have to add many Debug.Log() statements everywhere in my code for each variable which I need to watch, but I don't think that this is the intended way.
There is an article where the author says:
When I was in school the first way I learned how to debug a wonky
application was by sticking “print()” statements all over the place,
running my code, and looking back through the log of output seeing if
I noticed that something looked wrong. Then if I wanted to look at the
value of another variable I would have to add a new “print()”
statement, recompile, and re-run the application again. This can be a
tedious process, so I am pleased to tell you there is a better way
than littering your code with a slew of “print()” statements you’ll
have to remove later. You can use the tools of the Visual Studio
debugger to inspect variables on the fly.
But this does not seem to be true.

Answer 1

You can't inspect variables without pausing at a breakpoint. Alternatively you can observe them in Unity's inspector. To do so:
Switch the inspector to debug mode (right click on the tab)
Set it public temporarily
Use the [SerializeField] attribute temporarily

Answer 2

This does not work with visual studio, you need to use Debug.Log() for every variable which you need to track.
void Update()
{
x++;
Debug.Log(x);
}