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Looking for small prototyping board (soldering) with all holes connected (and user have to destroy unnecessary connections). How is this type of boards called?

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It's called Veroboard or Stripboard.
You can get it from any decent electronics supplier (Digikey, Farnell, Sparkfun, Adafruit, etc)

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Stripboard tag wiki

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Oli, Google links are not appreciated. You get a million hits, and then what? I'd prefer to have just one relevant link. – stevenvh Jul 26 '12 at 7:03
Not appreciated by who? ;-) In this case the Google link is in addition to the descriptive Wiki link, to give an example of how easy it is to find a source of cheap stripboard. It may not add anything in your opinion, but I can't see how it detracts from the answer. – Oli Glaser Jul 26 '12 at 11:15
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Not appreciated by "the community" :-). What it basically says is "look, here's a million links, you find it out". I think it's much more helpful to give some descriptive information from 1 or 2 links, and then he knows what to Google for if he wants to learn more. The way it is now the answer is just two links, WP and Google, and if I would flag your answer it may well be deleted for that reason. We want the information here. That's not just my opinion, that's what moderators think too. – stevenvh Jul 26 '12 at 11:24
I know it's short, but the basic answer to the question is here in this case. The OP asked "what the prototying board was called with the holes connected.." was called (there was also a hint of a shopping question which was why threw the google link in and mentioned sources) I gave the answer to this. I also wrote a descriptive tag on Stripboard as I was answering the question FWIW. I agree with what you have to say in general, but I think this simple answer to a simple question is fine in this case. – Oli Glaser Jul 26 '12 at 11:37
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@Steven - yes, I could have done all this here, but instead I spent some time writing the tag wiki (linked to above) to give all this information and more. I do respect your opinion, but I really don't think it's necessary to go into great detail here when the actual question was just a quick one about the name, and detailed information is (now) so readily accessible in the Tag Wiki. A good/correct answer doesn't always have to be long winded. I'll add a little more info and point to the tag though, if that'll keep you happy ;-) – Oli Glaser Jul 26 '12 at 12:41
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