It sounds like you can add a service and inject it into your controller. Then you only have to call.
It really depends on how painful this is for you, but you can always use the MVC scaffolding stuff found in Nuget and written by Steven Sanderson. Investing some time could help you in the long run, but you have to figure out if it's right for you.
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