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As per my knowledge, Strong Name uniquely identifies the assembly.
It is the combination of assembly name, version, culture, public key and digital signature. And when adding the assembly to GAC, we need to sign the assembly with a strong name.
If I am not wrong GUID is used as the ID when the assembly is exposed to COM.
I found that Strong name and GUID are similar in some sites. Are they reallly similar? If yes how?
GUID (globally unique identifier) is a far more general term, used for many things in many different contexts. Although a GUID is indeed used to identify a COM component, a strong name has more information than that, as you’ve already said.
So no, they’re not the same at all. They both have an aspect of identification, and they’re both used as identifiers within .NET, but that’s about all they have in common IMO.