The are some great books in the pipeline for ASP.NET web developers.  Everything from Visual Studio 2010, ASP.NET 4.0, ASP.NET MVC, HTML 5, jQuery 1.4, and even iPhone development.  Not to mention second editions of classic titles like jQuery in Action and C# in Depth.

Got any more? Let me know in the comments.

O’Reilly

Web Design for Developers – A Programmer’s Guide to Design Tools and Techniques

Web Design for Developers will show you how to make your web-based application look professionally designed. We’ll help you learn how to pick the right colors and fonts, avoid costly interface and accessibility mistakes–your application will really come alive. We’ll also walk you through some common Photoshop and CSS techniques and work through a web site redesign, taking a new design from concept all the way to implementation.

Effective UI – The Art of Building Great User Experience in Software

Effective UI provides a complete roadmap to building groundbreaking software centered on user experience (UX) quality, how to get management support, employing product management strategies proven to deliver greater success, and how to manage the design, engineering, staffing, and business considerations that must be centered on the user’s needs and working effectively in tandem all throughout the project. Effective UI is a guide for business and product, software professionals, and anyone else struggling to advance the cause of better UX and working to deliver on the promise of higher quality software.

Search Patterns
Search is among the most disruptive innovations of our time. It influences what we buy and where we go. It shapes how we learn and what we believe. This provocative and inspiring book explores design patterns that apply across the categories of web, ecommerce, enterprise, desktop, mobile, social, and realtime search and discovery. Using colorful illustrations and examples, the authors bring modern information retrieval to life, covering such diverse topics as relevance ranking, faceted navigation, multi-touch, and augmented reality. Search Patterns challenges us to invent the future of discovery while serving as a practical guide to help us make search better today.

97 Things Every Programmer Should Know – Collective Wisdom from the Experts
Get 97 short and extremely useful tips from some of the most experienced and respected practitioners in the industry, including Uncle Bob Martin, Scott Meyers, Dan North, Linda Rising, Udi Dahan, Neal Ford, and many more. They encourage you to stretch yourself by learning new languages, looking at problems in new ways, following specific practices, taking responsibility for your work, and becoming as good at the entire craft of programming as you possibly can.

High Performance JavaScript
Do you want to fix performance bottlenecks in your JavaScript code to help your website function better? With this book, you’ll examine the typical code problems that cause JavaScript to run slow. High Performance JavaScript teaches you how to identify inefficient structures and patterns, and replace them with better-performing alternatives.

Programming Microsoft® ASP.NET MVC
Author Dino Esposito leads you through the features, principles, and pillars of the ASP.NET MVC framework, demonstrating how and when to use this model to gain full control of HTML, simplify testing, and design better Web sites and experiences.

APress

Ultra-Fast ASP.NET: Building Ultra-Fast and Ultra-Scalable Websites Using ASP.NET and SQL Server
Ultra-Fast ASP.NET presents a practical approach to building fast and scalable web sites using ASP.NET and SQL Server. In addition to a wealth of tips, tricks and secrets, you’ll find advice and code examples for all tiers of your application, including the client, caching, IIS 7, ASP.NET, threads, session state, SQL Server, Analysis Services, infrastructure and operations. By applying the ultra-fast approach to your projects, you’ll squeeze every last ounce of performance out of your code and infrastructure—giving your site unrivaled speed.

Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010
Microsoft is introducing a large number of changes to the way that the .NET Framework operates. Familiar technologies are being altered, best practices replaced, and developer methodologies adjusted. Many developers find it hard to keep up with the pace of change across .NET’s ever-widening array of technologies. You may know what’s happening in C#, but how about the Azure cloud? How is that going to affect your work? What are the limitations of the new pLINQ syntax? What you need is a roadmap. A guide to help you see the innovations that matter and to give you a head start on the opportunities available in the new framework.

Pro HTML5 Programming: Powerful APIs for Richer Internet Application Development
HTML5 is here, and with it, rich Internet applications (RIAs) take on a power, ease, scalability, and responsiveness that neither Ajax nor Comet could ever achieve. With this book, developers will learn how to use the latest cutting-edge web technology—available in the most recent versions of modern browsers—to build real-time web applications with unparalleled functionality, speed, and responsiveness.

Pro ASP.NET MVC V2 Framework
Author Steven Sanderson has seen the ASP.NET MVC Framework mature from the start, so his experience, combined with comprehensive coverage of all the new features, including those in the official MVC development toolkit, offers the clearest understanding of how this exciting new framework can improve your coding efficiency. With this book, you’ll gain invaluable up-to-date knowledge of security, deployment, and interoperability challenges.

iPhone and Mac OS X Development for Windows Programmers: C#, C++ and C Edition
When coming to the iPhone and Mac OS X from Windows, you need to learn a new set of coding techniques and tools. Taken blindly, this can come as a shock—a shock that this book will help you avoid. It does this by teaching you to use your existing Windows programming knowledge to ease you into programming for Apple technologies.

Manning

jQuery in Action, Second Edition
A really good web development framework anticipates your needs. jQuery does more—it practically reads your mind. Developers fall in love with this JavaScript library the moment they see 20 lines of code reduced to three. jQuery is concise and readable. Its unique “chaining” model lets you perform multiple operations on a page element in succession. And with version 1.4, there’s even more to love about jQuery, including new effects and events, usability improvements, and more testing options.

Brownfield Application Development in .NET

Brownfield Application Development in .Net shows you how to approach legacy applications with the state-of-the-art concepts, patterns, and tools you’ve learned to apply to new projects. Using an existing application as an example, this book guides you in applying the techniques and best practices you need to make it more maintainable and receptive to change.

Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja
In Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, JavaScript expert John Resig reveals the inside know-how of the elite JavaScript programmers. Written to be accessible to JavaScript developers with intermediate-level skills, this book will give you the knowledge you need to create a cross-browser JavaScript library from the ground up.

Dependency Injection in .NET
Dependency Injection in .NET is a comprehensive guide than introduces DI and provides an in-depth look at applying DI practices to .NET apps. In it, you will also learn to integrate DI together with such technologies as Windows Communication Foundation, ASP.NET MVC, Windows Presentation Foundation and other core .NET components.

C# in Depth, Second Edition

C# in Depth, Second Edition concentrates on the high-value features that make C# such a powerful and flexible development tool. Rather than re-hashing the core of C# that’s essentially unchanged since it hit the scene nearly a decade ago, this book brings you up to speed with the features and practices that have changed with C# from version 2.0 onwards.

MS Press

Microsoft ASP.NET Internals
A comprehensive reference outlining the underpinnings of Microsoft’s Web application environment
Learn how to fully exploit the critical components and rich capabilities of the ASP.NET framework, without scouring blogs for information or enduring hours of trial and error. This comprehensive book offers developers the insights they need—including established architecture patterns—to create better, stronger, faster Web sites and Web-based applications Web services. The book offers readers the guidance they need to take advantage of ASP.NET right away, and outlines the evolution and future of the technology.

Addison Wesley

LINQ to Objects Using C# 4.0: Using and Extending LINQ to Objects and Parallel LINQ (PLINQ)
Using LINQ to Objects, .NET developers can write queries over object collections with the same deep functionality that was once available only with SQL and relational databases. Now, for the first time, developers have a comprehensive and authoritative guide to applying LINQ to Objects in real-world software. Microsoft MVP Troy Magennis introduces state-of-the-art techniques for working with objects more elegantly and efficiently–and writing code that is exceptionally powerful, robust, and flexible.

Updates from comments:

.NET Performance Testing and Optimization (Part 1)

Paul Glavich and Chris Farrell’s upcoming book on .NET performance testing and optimization will be out in a few weeks, and part one is already as a free e-book.  They explain why performance testing is a good idea, and walk you through everything you need to know about setting up a test environment. An essential handbook for programmers looking to set up a .NET testing environment.