New To Linux Development (from windows)... is there a faq?

I'd like to do some linux development for the open source SVN project.

That said, I'm an experience Windows developer... but I don't know anything about tools for linux.

I built a VM which I can access and I can build the SVN code, but it fails in a test, and I'd like to step through it... trivial in Visual Studio, but how do I do that in linuxworld?

Thanks in advance.